A CHURCH YEAR-BOOK 
OF SOCIAL JUSTICE 

Advent I9I9 - Advent 1920 




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A CHURCH YEAR-BOOK 
OF SOCIAL JUSTICE 

ADVENT 1919— ADVENT 192© 



A CHURCH YEARBOOK 
OF SOCIAL JUSTICE 

ADVENT 1919— ADVENT 1920 



COMPILED BY 

THE SOCIETY OF THE COMPANIONS 
• OF THE HOLY CROSS 

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE SOCIAL SERVICE COMMISSION 



Behold I make all things new. 

Revelations XXI, 5 




NEW YORK 
E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY 

681 FIFTH AVENUE 



TABLE OF CONTENTS 



LENT I 

The Fast ...... 


PAGE 

97 


LENT II 

The Sins of the Church . 


. 105 


LENT III 

A Week with St. Chrysostom 


113 


LENT IV 

Freedom and Bread . . 


. 121 


LENT V 

Social Salvation . . . . 


129 


holy week 

The Cross 


137 


EASTER WEEK 

The Vision of Lifb . 


145 


EASTER I 

A New World Order . 


153 


EASTER II 

Compassionate Care 


161 


EASTER III 

Social Ties 


169 


easter iv 

Simplicity of Life . 


177 


EASTER V 

A Week of Intercession . 


. 185 


ascensiontide 

The Hope of the Kingdom 


. 193 


WHITSUNDAY 

The Glory of the Church 


201 


TRINITY 

The Blessed Trinity . 


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TABLE OF CONTENTS 



trinity i 

Dives and Lazarus . 


PAGE 

. 217 


trinity ii 

Missions 


. 225 


TRINITY III 

The Body of Christ . . 


. 233 


trinity iv 

The Church in Action . 


. 241 


trinity v 

Patriotism 


. 249 


trinity vi 

The Class Struggle 


. 257 


TRINITY VII 

Social Shame 


265 


trinity viii 

Individual Holiness 


273 


trinity ix 

War to End War 


281 


trinity x 

The Day of Our Visitation . 


289 


trinity xi 

National Humility . . . . 


297 


TRINITY XII 

Life from Within 


, 305 


TRINITY XIII 

Labor: Its Claims . 


. 313 


TRINITY XIV 

Labor: Its Ideals . 


. 321 


trinity xv 

The Summons of the Cross , 


329 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS 



trinity xvi ' page 

Christian Womanhood . . . 337 
trinity xvii 

Unity 345 

trinity xviii 

Our Neighbor ..... 353 
trinity xix 

Christian Ideals of Property . 361 
trinity xx 

A Week of Thanksgiving . . 369 
trinity xxi 

Christian Steadfastness . . 377 
trinity xxii 

All Saints ...... 385 

trinity xxiii 

Unworldliness 393 

trinity xxiv 

Alleluia 401 

trinity xxv 

Scripture Promises .... 409 



ACKNOWLEDGMENT 

Thanks are due to the following authors 
and publishers for permission to quote pas- 
sages : 

American Unitarian Association, Theo- 
dore Parker; Benziger Bros., Dubois, Si. 
Francis of Assist; Century Company, 
Theodore Roosevelt, The Strenuous Life; 
Chapman and Hall, Carlyle, Past and 
Present; Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 
Katherine Lee Bates, America the Beauti- 
ful: Sophie Jewett, The Pearl: Theodore F. 
Seward, The School of Life; Father Cuth- 
bert. Catholic Ideals in Social Life; J. M. 
Dent and Sons, Anne Macdonell, Sons of 
Francis; Letters of St, Catherine of Siena; 
Journal of Jo^hn Woolman; P. J. and A. E, 
DoBELL, Thomas Traherne, Poetical Works; 
The Dolphin Press, Father Paschal Rob- 
inson, Tr. Writings of St, Francis; Dodd 
Mead and Co., Elizabeth Barrett Brown- 
ing, Poems (Copyright), F. I. Paradise, 
Christianity and Commerce; E. P. Dutton 
and Co., many quotations; Funk and Wag- 
NALLS, W, E. Orchard, The Outlook for 
Religion; Alice Gladden, Washington Giad- 

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den; Harper Bros.^ Henry M. Alden^ God 
in His World; Henry Holt and Co., Carl 
Sandburgs They Will Say; Houghton 
Mifflin Co., Layman Abbott^ Christianity 
and Social Problems; Bernard I. Bell^ Right 
and Wrong After the War; Anna Hemp- 
stead Branchy The Shoes That Danced; 
Richard Watson Gilder^ Poems; Samuel 
Longfellow^ Hymns and Verses; James Rus- 
sell Lowell^ Miscellaneous Poems; Josephine 
Preston Peabody Marks^ The Singing 
Leaves; Wm. Vaughan Moody^ Plays and 
Poems; Vida D. Scudder^ A Listener in 
Babel; Socialism and Character; Edumund 
Clarence Stedman^ ed. American Anthology; 
J. G. Whittier^ Poems; Longmans Green 
AND Co.^ Charles H. Brent^ The Inspiration 
of Responsibility; Macmillan Co.^ Works 
of Brooke Foss Westcott^ A.E., Walter 
Rauschenbusch^ Matthew Arnold^ John 
Graham Brooks^ Maurice Hewlett; The Bib- 
lical and Early Christian Ideal of Property, 
ed. by Bishop Gore; Edwin Markham; 
Mitchell Kennerley^ Theodosia Garrison^ 
Poems; Missionary Education Movement^ 
President Faunce^ Social Aspects of For- 
eign Missions, The Morehouse Publishing 
Co.,, Nelson and Sons^ Kropotkine, Fields, 
Factories and Workshops; The Outlook 
Company^ The Oxford University Press^ 
Robert Bridges^ Poems; Charles Scribner's 

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ACKNOWLEDGMENT 



SoNs^ Henry Van Dyke^ W. P. Merrill^ John 
Galsworthy, H. G. Wells; The Survey As- 
sociates, Hymns of the Social A wakening j 
Small and Maynard, Father Tabb; Hor- 
ace Traubel, Walt Whitman; John C. 
Winston Co., Rufiis M. Jones. 



PREFACE 

The Society of Companions of the Holy 
Cross is glad to offer to the Church this 
Year Book, in which the attempt is made 
to suggest the play of Christian and Cath- 
olic thought down the centuries on the 
great principles of social justice which 
preoccupy our own time. Many schemes 
for such an anthology might be developed : 
any one scheme must be fragmentary and 
unsatisfactory. The plan here adopted 
bears in mind the social significance of 
each great Season, and in addition usually 
takes the key-note for each week from 
the appointed Epistle and Gospel, intro- 
ducing the week with brief devotions from 
the same source. So rich are the Scrip- 
tures prescribed by the Church, that often 
the aspect chosen is only one among others 
equally valuable. 

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PREFACE 



Today, obedience to the social implica- 
tions of our holy faith is becoming perhaps 
for the first time a practical aim: it is 
recognized by many Christians as the chief 
hope for the new world of which men 
dream. At such a time, a Year Book like 
this should be of special value. Despite 
numerous imperfections, of which the com- 
pilers are keenly conscious, we trust that 
it may be welcomed by the increasing num- 
ber of the faithful who care for the ap- 
plication of Christianity to political and 
industrial life no less than for the exten- 
sion of Missions and for religious educa- 
tion. 

The Editoks. 



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ADVENT I 

THE DAY OF THE LORD 

V, Blessed is He that cometh in 
the Name of the Lord. 
R. Hosanna in the highest. 

For that now is our salvation 
nearer than when we believed, 
Good Lord, we thank Thee. 



NOVEMBER 30 



Sunday — 

T T was not warning that our fathers 
^ lacked, 

It is not warning that we lack to- 
day. 
The Voice that crieth still cries: 
"Rise up and act; 
Watch alway, — ^watch and pray, — 
watch alway, — 

All men." 

Alas, if aught was lacked good will 
was lacked; 
Alas, good will is what we lack 
to-day. 
O gracious Voice, grant grace that 
all may act. 
Watch and act, — watch and pray, — 
watch alway, — 

Amen, 

Christina Rossetti: Changing Climes. 



2 



DECEMBER 1 



Monday— 

npHE real question everywhere is 
^ whether the world, distracted 
and confused as everybody sees that 
it is, is going to be patched up and 
restored to what it used to be, or 
whether it is going forward into a 
quite new and different kind of 
life, whose exact nature nobody can 
pretend to foretell, but which is to 
be distinctly new, unlike the life of 
any age which the world has seen al- 
ready. ... It is impossible that the 
old conditions, so shaken and broken, 
can ever be repaired and stand just 
as they stood before. The time has 
come when something more than 
mere repair and restoration of the 
old is necessary. The old must die 
and a new miist come forth out of 
its tomb. 

Phillips Brooks: Sermons, Vol. v. 
3 



DECEMBER 2 



Tuesday — 

npHROUGH every conflict the 
Truth is seen in the majesty of 
its growing vigor. Shakings, shak- 
ings not of the earth only but of the 
heaven will come; but what then? 
We know this, that all that falls is 
taken away that those things which 
are not shaken may remain. 

Bishop Westcoti: Christus Consummator. 



i 



DECEMBER 3 



Wednesday — 

T S there but one Day of Judgment? 
^ Why, for us every day is a day 
of judgment, and writes its irrev- 
ocable verdict in the flames of its 
West. Think you that judgment 
waits till the doors of the grave are 
opened? It waits at the doors of 
vour houses, — it waits at the corners 
of your streets; we are in the midst 
of judgment, the insects that we 
crush are our judges, the moments 
we fret away are our judges, the ele- 
ments that feed us judge as they 
minister, and the pleasures that de- 
ceive us judge as they indulge, 
John Ruskin: The Mystery of Life. 



DECEMBER 4 



Thursday — 

T N the anguish of the hour, when 
^ kingdoms are rocking to their 
base, the social structure of modern 
civilization is strained to the break- 
ing point, and all hearts are full of 
fear, it may be left only to a few to 
recognize that this is the coming of 
the Son of Man on the clouds of 
heaven. All that many see at the 
moment is the clouds, for they have 
forgotten that this was to be the 
sign of His coming. . . • Even the 
Church has not yet discerned that 
the author of this crisis is her Lord 
who at His great rejection took over 
the dictatorship of history and taught 
us to see in every human catastrophe 
the sign of His Coming. 
W, E. Orchard: The Outlook for Religion. 



6 



DECEMBER 5 



Friday — 

DE afflicted, and mourn, and weep. 
. . . Humble yourselves in the 
sight of the Lord and He shall lift 
you up. . . . Go to now, ye rich men, 
weep and howl for your miseries that 
shall come upon you. Your riches 
are corrupted, and your garments are 
moth-eaten. Your gold and silver is 
cankered; and the rust of them shall 
be a witness against you. . . . Ye 
have heaped treasure together for the 
last days. Behold, the hire of the 
laborers who have reaped down your 
fields, which is of you kept back by 
fraud, crieth: and the cries of them 
which have reaped are entered into 
the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. . . . 
Be patient therefore, brethren, 
un^o the Coming of the Lord. 

Epistle of SL James. 



DECEMBER 6 



Saturday — 

nn HE world is organized for 
Righteousness, whether it looks 
like it or not: and God can wait. 

B. «7. CampbelL 



ADVENT II 

THE KINGDOM OF GOD 

A^ITHEN ye see these things come 

^ to pass, know ye that the 

Kingdom of God is nigh at hand. 

That we through patience and com- 
fort of the Scriptures may abound 
in hope, 

We beseech Thee to hear us. Good 
Lord. 



9 



DECEMBER 7 



Stmday — 

^OTHING is bought for a lower 
price than the Kingdom of 
Heaven. 

Gregory the Great. 



A PRAYER that has no mention 
"^^ of the Kingdom in it is no 
prayer at all 

Rabbinical Saying, 



Thy kingdom come on earth, 



10 



DECEMBER 8 



Monday — 

V\/'E look with unquenchable hope 
^ ^ upon the vision of that social 
order foretold by the Hebrew proph- 
ets and called by Jesus the Kingdom 
of God. Behind this world struggle 
that coming world order is dimly 
seen. It is the task of organized re- 
ligion to keep the vision from being 
obscured by the dust and sweat of 
the conflict. We summon the gen- 
eration that is paying the awful cost 
of this world war, highly to resolve 
that out of it they shall create some 
form of world organization that shall 
turn the instruments of destruction 
into the means of constructive de- 
velopment, that shall give to every 
nation and to the last man due share 
in the ownership and control of the 
earth's resources and affairs. 

Federal Council of Churches , 1917, 
11 



DECEMBER 9 



Tuesday — 

nPHY Kingdom, Lord, we long 
^ for, 

Where Love shall find its own; 
And brotherhood triumphant 
Our years of pride disown. 
Thy captive people languish 
In mill and mart and mine: 
We lift to Thee their anguish, 
We wait thy promised Sign! 

If now perchance in tumult 
The destined Sign appear, — 
The Rising of the People, — 
Dispel our coward fear! 
Let comforts that we cherish, 
Let old tradition die, 
Our wealth, our wisdom perish, 
If so Thou may St draw nigh! 

Vida D. Scudder. 



12 



DECEMBER 10 



Wednesday — 

T^OOLISH men imagine that be- 
cause judgment for an evil thing 
is delayed, there is no justice but an 
accidental one here below. Judg- 
ment for an evil thing is many times 
delayed some day or two, some cen- 
tury or two; but it is sure as life, it 
is sure as death! In the centre of 
the world- whirlwind, verily now as in 
the oldest days, dwells and speaks a 
God. 

Thomas Carlyle: Past and Present. 



18 



DECEMBER 11 



Thursday — 

T COME in the little things, 

^ Saith the Lord: 

My starry wings 

I do forsake, 

Love's highway of humility to take; 

Meekly I fit my stature to your need. 

In beggar's part 

About your gates I shall not cease to 

plead — 
As man, to speak with man — 
Till by such art 

I shall achieve My Immemorial Plan, 
Pass the low lintel of the human 

heart. 

Evelyn Underhill: Immanence, 



14 



DECEMBER 12 



Friday — 

T THE Lord have called thee in 

^ righteousness, and will hold thine 

hand, and will keep thee, and give 

thee for a covenant of the people ; . . . 

to open the blind eyes, to bring out the 

prisoners from the prison and them 

that sit in darkness out of the prison 

house. . . . Behold, the former things 

are come to pass, and new things do 

I declare: before they spring forth I 

tell you of them. 

Isaiah, XLII. 



16 



DECEMBER 13 



Saturday — 

nn HE Kingdom of God is the first 
and the most essential dogma of 
the Christian faith. It is also the last 
social ideal of Christendom. No man 
is a Christian in the full sense of the 
original discipleship until he has made 
the Kingdom of God the controlling 
purpose of his life, and no man is in- 
tellectually prepared to understand 
Jesus Christ until he has understood 
the meaning of the Kingdom of God. 

Walter Rauschenbusch: Christianizing 

the Social Order. 



16 



ADVENT III 

SIGNS OF THE KINGDOM 

nnHE blind receive their sight 

and the lame walk, the lepers 

are cleansed and the deaf hear, the 

dead are raised up and the poor 

have the gospel preached to them. 

That we be ministers of hopje and 
stewards of the mysteries of God, 

We beseech Thee to hear us, Good 
Lord. 



17 



DECEMBER 14 



Sunday — 

/^IVE me the power to labor for 

^^ mankind ; 

Make me the mouth of such as can- 
not speak; 

Eyes let me be to groping men and 
blind ; 

A conscience to the base; and to the 
weak 

Let me be hands and feet ; and to the 
foolish, mind; 

And lead still further on such as thy 
kingdom seek. 

Theodore ParJcer. 



18 



DECEMBER 15 



Monday — 

1I)ELIEVE me, he who does not 
think of the wants of the poor 
is not a member of the body of 
Christ, for if one member suffers, all 
suffer. 

St, Alphege: Archbishop of Canterbury , 

Tenth Century. 



19 



DECEMBER l6 



Tuesday — 

1 F thou leave that thing which thou 
^ art bound to by way of charity, 
thou dost not worship God discreetly. 
Thou art busy to worship His head 
and His face, but thou leavest His 
Body, all ragged and rent, and tak- 
est no heed thereof. Our Lord Jesus 
Christ as Man is head of a ghostly 
body, the which is Holy Church. 
The limbs of His Body are all chris- 
tened men. Then if thou be busy 
with all thy might for to array His 
Head, that is to worship Himself, 
and forgettest His feet, that are thy 
children, thy servants, thy tenants 
and all thine evenchristians, thou 
pleasest Him not. Thou makest to 
kiss His mouth in devotion of ghost- 
ly prayer, but thou treadest upon 
His feet and defilest them. 

W. Hilton: Fourteenth Century. 
20 



DECEMBER 17 



Wednesday — 

'T^HE comfortable days when one 
^ could give to the poor and feel 
that an obligation had been dis- 
charged are past. While charity is 
still necessary in the midst of the 
confusion and disorder of our pres- 
ent system, it can be no longer 
looked upon as an end in itself. 
Wherever charity is needed it is evi- 
dent that there is always some cause 
for that situation. We feel now 
that we should go back to the source 
to eliminate the cause of the trouble. 

Bishop Paul Jones, 



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DECEMBER 18 



Thursday — 

/CHARITY urges the Christian 
^^ to work for his neighbor, buj/ 
this work may be one of two kinds. 
It may be what is usually known as 
charitable work, or it may be what is 
called social work. By charitable 
work I mean, for instance, providing 
for the blind, the maimed, the orphan, 
the sick, the giving of alms to the de- 
serving poor. By social work, I 
mean work which aims at preventing 
poverty, sickness, suffering. Chari- 
table work cures the wound; social 
work prevents the blow from falling. 
Charitable work prevents the effects 
of evil; social work cuts at the root 
of the evil. 

Rev. L. McKenna, S. J. 



22 



DECEMBER 19 



Fnday — 
N discussing the subject of Chris- 



I 



tian charity we must not overlook 
the more fundamental grace of jus- 
tice. The Church must not make 
benevolence a substitute for justice. 
It is said that many of the great 
fortunes in America can be ac- 
counted for by the margin between 
what the laborers of the industry 
needed and should have gotten for 
their work and what they actually 
received. And perhaps the Church 
of Jesus, as it is formally organized 
today, has more need for this funda- 
mental lesson of justice than it has 
for the advanced lesson of benevo- 
lence. 

The Christian Herald. 



23 



DECEMBER 20 



Saturday — 

rpAKE away benevolence from 
the intercourse of men with each 
other, and thou hast taken the sun 
out of the world. 



npHOU dost not give to the poor 
^ what is thine own, thou restorest 
to him what is his. The earth be- 
longs to all, not to the rich only. 
Thou art there for paying thy debt, 
and givest him only what thou owest 
him. 

St, Ambrose. 



24 



ADVENT IV 

THE COMING OF THE KING 

V. Rejoice in the Lord alway. 
R. The Lord is at hand. 

Thy throne, O God, is for ever and 
ever: a sceptre of righteousness is 
the sceptre of Thy Kingdom. 
Thanks be to God. 



25 



DECEMBER 21 



Sunday — 

a AVE through the flesh Thou 

^ woulds't not come to me — 

The flesh, wherein Thy strength my 

weakness found 
A weight to bow Thy Godhead to 

the ground 
And lift to heaven a lost humanity. 

John Tabb, 



npHE Incarnation means nearness 
— the nearness of strength to 
weakness, of wisdom to ignorance, of 
wealth to poverty, of purity to un- 
cleanness, of God to man. 

Bishop Brent: The Inspiration of Re- 
sponsibility. 



26 



DECEMBER 22 



Monday — 

TN the person of the Incarnate we 
* see how true it has been all along 
that man is in God's image: for this 
is man, Jesus of Nazareth; his quali- 
ties are human qualities, love and 
justice, self sacrifice and desire and 
compassion; yet they are the quali- 
ties of none other than the very God. 
So akin are God and man to one an- 
other that God can really exist under 
conditions of manhood without ceas- 
ing to be and to reveal, God ; and man 
can be taken to be the organ of God- 
head without one whit ceasing to be 
human. 

Bishop Gore: The Incarnation of the 

Son of God, 



27 



DECEMBER 23 



Tuesday — 

^LA /"Ei are led to believe a lie 
^ ^ When we see with not through 

the eye. 
God appears and God is light 
To those poor souls who dwell in 

night, 
But doth a human form display- 
To those who dwell in realms of day. 

William Blake: Auguries of Innocence. 



28 



DECEMBER 24 



Wednesday — 

V. Today ye shall know that the 
Lord is come. 

R. And in the morning then ye 
shall see His glory. Breviary. 

A S this night was bright 

^^ With thy cradle ray, 

Very light of light 

Turn the wild world's night 

To thy perfect day. 

Yet thy poor endure 

And are with us yet, 
Be thy name a sure 
Refuge for thy poor 

Whom men's eyes forget. 

Bid our peace increase, 

Thou that madest morn; 

Bid oppressions cease; 

Bid the night be peace; 
Bid the day be born. 

Algernon Charles Swinbiirne. 
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DECEMBER 25 



Thursday, Christmas Day — 

]^OW dere frend before matins 
^^ sail thou thynke of the swete 
byrthe of leesu Criste alther first. 
The tyme was in myd wynnter, 
whene it was maste cald, the hour 
was at mydnyghte, the hardest hour 
that is, the stede was in mydwarde 
the strete, in a house withouten 
walles; in cloutes was He wounden 
and as a childe was He bounden, and 
in a crib before an oxe and an asse 
that lufely Lord was laid, for there 
was no other stead voyde. Thou 
sail thynke also of the herdes that 
sawe the tokene of His byrthe, and 
thou sail thynke of the swete felaw- 
ship of angells and rayse uppe thy 
herte and synge with them : Gloria in 
Excelsis Deo. 

Richard Rolle: The Mirror of St, Ed^ 
mund. Fourteenth Century^ 

30 



DECEMBER 26 



Friday — • 

nnO pastours and to poets ap- 

peared that angel, 
And bade them go to Bethlehem, 

God's birth to honor. 
And sung a song of solace, Gloria in 

Excelsis Deo! 
Rich men slept then and in their rest 

were, 
Though it shone to the shepherds, a 

shewer of bliss. 

Langland: The Vision of Piers the 

Plowman. 



THE CHRISTMAS BABE 

OO small that lesser lowliness 
^^ Must bow to worship or caress ; 
So great that heaven itself to know 
Love's majesty must look below. 

John B. Tabb. 

81 



DECEMBER 27 



Saturday — 

Yy HETHER my house is dark or 
^ ^ bright, 

I close it not on any night, 
Lest Thou, hereafter King of Stars, 
Against me close Thy Heavenly 
bars. 

If from a guest who shares thy 

board, 
The dearest dainty Thou shalt hoard, 
'Tis not that guest, O do not doubt. 
But Mary's Son shall do without. 

Collection of Irish verse. 



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CHRISTMASTIDE 



NEWNESS OF LIFE 

HEN the fullness of the time 
was come, God sent forth His 
Son, made of a woman, that we 
might receive the adoption of sons. 



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For the Spirit of the Son crying 

Abba, Father, in our hearts 
We beseech Thee to hear us, 
Good Lord, 



83 



DECEMBER 28 



Sunday — 

r\ JESU, bom a little child for 
^-^ love of us: Grant Thy loving 
pity to all children under age who 
labor for daily wages in this land of 
ours. Touch the hearts of those who 
through thoughtlessness or love of 
gain consider not their weak and 
tender years. Assist the passing of 
just laws in their behalf, free them 
from bondage, and bring them to the 
joyful inheritance of the children of 
God, for Thy Name's sake. Amen. 

5. C. H. C. Manual 



84 



DECEMBER 29 



Monday — 

(^\P niy city the worst that men will 

^^ say is this: 

You took little children away from 

the sun and the dew, 
And the glimmers that played in the 

grass under the great sky, 
To work, broken and smothered, for 

bread and wages, 
To eat dust in their throats and die 

empty-hearted, 
For a little handful of pay on a few 

Saturday nights. 

Carl Sandburg. 



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DECEMBER 30 



Tuesday — 

l^EVER lighter was a leaf upon 

a linden tree 
Than Love was when it took the 

flesh and blood of man. 
Therefore is Love the leader of the 

Lord's folk in heaven . . . 
In thy heart's conscience, in the deep 

well of thee, 
In thy heart and in thy head, the 

mighty Truth is born . . • 
Therefore I counsel you, ye rich, 

have pity on the poor. 

Langland: The Vision of Piers the 

Plomman, 



86 



DECEMBER 31 



Wednesday — 

\^7E have heard the valleys groan 
^ With one voice and manifold : 
Stone is crying unto stone, 
Mould is whispering unto mould. 
Hear them whisper, hear them call, 
"All for one and one for all." 

Dig the well and raise the wall ; 
For the nations to be born, 
Root away the bitter thorn, 
Reap and sow the golden corn. 

William Vaughn Moody: The Fire- 

Bringer. 



37 



JANUARY 1 



Thursday — 

nnilE winter fails; a year new- 
born 
Stands by the Manger's Altar-horn. 

^ ¥^ y^ ^ ^ 

The stars are spinning their threads 
And the clouds are the dust that 
flies ; 
And the suns are weaving them up 
For the time when the sleepers 
shall rise. 

The weepers are learning to smile, 
iVnd laughter to glean the sighs, 
Burn and bury the care and guile 
For the day when the sleepers 
shall rise. 

George Macdonald, 



38 



JANUARY 2 



Friday — 

OINCE our Redeemer, the Maker 
^^ of every creature, was pleased 
mercifully to assume human flesh in 
order to break the chain of slavery 
in which we were held captive, and 
restore us to our pristine liberty, it 
is right that men whom nature from 
the beginning produced free, and 
whom the law of nations has sub- 
jected to the yoke of slavery, should 
be restored by the benefit of man- 
umission to the liberty in which they 
were born. 

Gregory the Great, 



89 



JANUARY 3 



Saturday — 

np HOUGH all our pleasure and 
■ our pride have paled, 

Though all the yearnings of our 
youth have died, 

No task need be declined, no loss be- 
wailed: 

Great anarchies are still to be defied. 

Truth will be clearer for our hav- 
ing failed, 

Hope will be higher for our having 
tried. 

Robinson Smith. 



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CHRISTMASTIDE 

THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE 
MYSTERY 

A ND when they were come into 
^^^ the house, they saw the young 
Child with Mary His Mother. 

That we behold the fellowship of the 
mystery whereby the Gentiles are 
fellow-heirs and of the same body 
with them of the Circumcision, 
Good Lord, we thank Thee. 



41 



JANUARY 4 



Sundatf — 

OT to the swift, the race; 

Not to the strong, the fight: 
Not to the righteous, perfect grace: 
Not to the wise, the light. 



N 



But often faltering feet 
Come surest to the goal; 
And they who walk in darkness meet 
The sunrise of the soul. 

The truth the wise men sought 
Was spoken by a child ; 
The alabaster box was brought 
In trembling hands defiled. 

From the poems of Henry Van Dyke, 
Copyright 1911. By Charles Scrih- 
ner's Sons^ By permission of the 

publishers. 



•■2 



JANUARY 5 



Monday — 

r\ BLESSED JESU, Thou true 
^^ Light of our souls that out- 
shinest all created lights: send down 
Thy ray from above, that by its 
power we may continually offer to 
Thee the gold of burning charity, the 
frankincense of fervent devotion, and 
the myrrh of perfect mortification. 
O send out Thy light and Thy truth 
that they may lead us from the far 
off land of sin to worship in Thy 
Presence. 

S. C. H. C. Manual. 



48 



JANUARY 6 



Tuesday, Feast of the Epiphany — 

PPIPHANY is no isolated and 
^^ solitary act. It is a process: it 
is eternally typical of the Divine 
character. We will not merely look 
back over the long centuries at the 
manifestation that first flashed forth 
before the eyes of the Three Wise 
Men. Here and now, God is re- 
vealing Himself afresh before our 
very eyes. . • . For us too, clogged 
and choked by the dismal sand, there 
is a star that guides, a God who 
beckons. If only we would see! 

Henry Scott Holland, 



44 



JANUARY 7 



Wednesday — • 

npHE old order has passed. One 
great good which has come out 
of the war is a reassertion of the es- 
sential equality of mankind. The 
war was a great leveller. In that 
crisis we all had to put our shoulders 
to the wheel, rich and poor, high and 
low, and with all former rank and 
distinction swept away each of us 
fitted into the groove to which he was 
best suited. It is in that spirit that 
we must face our present problems. 

William Fellowes Morgan. 



.45 



JANUARY 8 



Thursday — 

rpHE first thing the Church has 
to do is in the face of competing 
sects and class distinctions, to bear 
witness to the essential equality and 
unity of the whole people. This she 
does by means of her Sacrament of 
Infant Baptism. . . . Every little 
human being born into London is 
claimed as being the equal with 
every other little human being. 

Stefvart Headlam, 



46 



JANUARY 9 



Friday — 

r^ HRISTIANITY devotes itself 
V^ to the consecration of the com- 
mon life of working people. . . • But 
the strength of this early intellectual 
system of Christianity lay in its un- 
academical origin, in its remaining in 
very close relation to the common 
life of common people. . . . Chris- 
tianity in matters of intellect as 
in social matters generally, works 
upwards from below. That is its 
essential method. . • . In the propaga- 
tion of Christianity, then, the Chris- 
tian does not weep, but rather exults 
with S. Paul and Christ Himself if 
the learned of any community hold 
aloof or reject while the poor accept. 

Bishop Gore: The New Theology and 

the Old Religion. 



47 



JANUARY 10 



Saturday — 

A ND then a Child acknowledging 
^^ A human parent's sway 
In Joseph's Work-shop Thou didst 

will 
To labor day by day. 

Grant that in all our daily toil 
That Work-shop we may view 
And work as if beside Thee 
In whatsoe'er we do. 

Episcopal Female Tract Society, 



48 



EPIPHANY I 



THE WORKMAN CHRIST 

A iND Jesus increased in wisdom 
^^ and stature and in favor with 

God and man. 
Is not this the Carpenter? 

That we present our bodies a living 
sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto 
God, 

We beseech Thee to hear us, Good 
Lord. 



49 



JANUARY 11 



Sunday — 

T N the shop of Nazareth 

^ Pungent cedar haunts the breath. 

In the room the Craftsman stands, 

Stands and reaches out His hands. 

Let the shadows veil His face 

If you must and dimly trace 

His workman's tunic, girt with bands 

At the waist. But the Hands — 

Let the light play on them; 

Marks of toil lay on them. 

When night comes and I turn 

From my shop where I earn 

Daily bread, let me see 

Those hard Hands, know that He 

Shared my lot every bit : 

Was a man every whit. 

Carpenter, hard like Thine 

Is this hand — this of mine 

I reach out gripping Thee, 

Son of Man, close to me 

Close and fast fearlessly. 

Arthur Pierce Vaughan: Hands of Toil. 
50 



JANUARY 12 



Monday — 

/^(JR Lord chose to belong to the 
^-^ class of the honorable artizan, 
and on the whole He chose His 
apostles from the same class. • . . 
He succored the miserable, while He 
chose his instruments from among 
the respectable, but from the class 
accustomed to live hardly, and to de- 
pend for sustenance on daily labor. 
To this class He gave the preroga- 
tive position in His church. 

Bishop Gore: Sermon to Church Con- 
gress, 1906, 



51 



JANUARY IS 



Tuesday — 

A ND I worked with my hands 
'^^^ and I wished to work and I wish 
firmly that all the other brothers 
should work at some labor which is 
compatible with honesty. Let those 
who know not how to work learn, 
not through desire to receive the 
price of labor, but for the sake of 
example and to repel idleness. 

Writings of St. Francis : Tr. by Father 

Paschal Robinson, 



5»^ 



JANUARY 14 



Wednesday — 

PRAYER FOR WORKING- 
MEN 

/^ GOD, thou mightiest worker of 
^-^ the universe, we pray Thee for 
our brothers, the industrial workers 
of the nation. Grant the organiza- 
tions of labor quiet patience and pru- 
dence in all disputes and fairness to 
see the other side. Raise up for them 
still more leaders of able mind and 
large heart. May the upward climb 
of labor bless all classes of our nation, 
and build up for the republic of the 
future a great body of workers, 
strong of limb, clear of mind, fair in 
temper, glad to labor, conscious of 
their worth and striving together for 
the final brotherhood of all men. 

Walter Rauschenbusch, 



58 



JANUARY 15 



Thursday — 

A LL social evils and religious er- 
rors arise out of the pillage of 
the labourer by the idler: the idler 
leaving him only enough to live on 
(and even that miserably) and tak- 
ing all the rest of the produce of his 
work to spend in his own luxury, or 
in the toys with which he beguiles his 
idleness. 
John Ruskin: Fors Clavigera, LXXXIF. 



npHE solution of the industrial 
problem involves not merely 
the improvement of individuals but 
a fundamental change in the spirit of 
the industrial system itself. 

Christianity and Industrial Problems: 
Archbishop's Fifth Committee of Inquiry. 



54 



JANUARY 16 



Fnday — 

T) Y Peter," quoth a plowman, and 
forward put his head, 

"I know Truth as well as scholar 
doth his book. 

Conscience and my own wit led me 
to his place. 

Made me his man, to serve him ever- 
more. 

I dig, I ditch, I do all that Truth 
biddeth me, 

He is gentle as a lamb, lovely in 
speech ; 

If ye will know where Truth 
dwelleth, 

I will show you the way home." 

Nor by words nor by works shalt 

thou know Charity, 
But by Piers Plowman, and that is 

Christ. 

Langland: Vision of Piers Plowman. 
55 



JANUARY 17 



Saturday — 

rp HE day is Thine, Thou Lord of 
^ all who toil, for all eternity be- 
longeth unto Thee; Thou hast but 
loaned it unto me. Master Crafts- 
man, who knewest on earth the 
sweetness of earning Thy daily 
bread, help me to use this day 
worthily; until the tasks that come 
from Thy hands are done and Thou 
biddest me lay aside my tools, take 
up my pilgrim's staff, and fare forth 
on the journey that leadeth to Thee. 

Amen, 



56 



EPIPHANY II 

BROTHERLY LOVE 

t>E kindly affectioned one to an- 
other with brotherly love; dis- 
tributing to the necessities of 
saints. 

By the courtesy whereby Thou didst 
turn water into wine, 
May we be given to hospitality. 



57 



JANUARY 18 



Sunday — 

"VrOT alone, not alone would I go 
to my rest, in the heart of the 

love ; 
Were I tranced in the innermost 

beauty, the flame of its tenderest 

breath, 
I would still hear the cry of the 

fallen, recalling me back from 

above, 
To go down to the side of the people 

who weep in the shadow of death. 

A. E. 



58 



JANUARY 19 



Monday — 

A ROB US' redbreast in a cage 
Puts all heaven in a rage. 
A dog starved at his master's gate 
Predicts the ruin of the State. 
A skylark wounded in the wing 
A cherubim does cease to sing. 
The beggar's rags fluttering in air 
Does to lags the heavens tear. 

Blake: Auguries of Innocence, 



59 



JANUARY 20 



Tuesday — 

IT EKE AFTER shalt thou wit 
which are the seven works of 
mercy. The first work of mercy is 
to give meat to the hungry. The 
tother is to give drink to the thirsty. 
The third is to clothe the naked. The 
fourth is to harbour the harbourless. 
The fifth is to visit them that are in 
prisoun. The sixth is to comfort the 
sick. The seventh is to bury the 
dead. These are the seven works of 
mercy that are belonging to the body. 

Richard Rolle: The Mirror of St, Ed- 
mund, Fourteenth Century. 



60 



JANUARY 21 



Wednesday — 

TTE who is in a ship is near to 
shipwreck. Therefore, so long 
as thou art sailing with a favorable 
wind, hold out a hand to those who 
are suffering shipwreck: as long as 
thou art healthy and rich, help the 
unfortunate. Man has nothing so 
divine as beneficence. Be a God to 
the unfortunate, by imitating the 
mercy of God. 

Gregory of Nasianzus, 



61 



JANUARY 22 



Thursday — 

'lilT'HEN such poor men and 
^ ^ women as are clearly in the 
right, and have no one to help them, 
show us the reason why they have 
no money, it would be greatly to the 
honor of God for you to undertake 
their cause, from the impulse of 
charity, like St. Ives, who in his time 
was the lawyer of the poor. Con- 
sider that the deed of pity, and min- 
istering to the poor with those facul- 
ties which God has given you, is very 
pleasing to God, and salvation to 
your soul. 

Letters of St, Catherine of Siena. 



62 



JANUARY 23 



Friday — 

T UXURY is indeed possible in the 
^^ future — innocent and exquisite; 
luxury for all and by the help of all; 
but luxury at present can only be 
enjoyed by the ignorant; the crud- 
est man living could not sit at his 
feast unless he sat blindfold. 

John Ruskin: Unto This Last. 



63 



JANUARY 24 



Saturday — 

T ORD, make us all love all: that 

^^ when we meet 

Even myriads of earth's myriads at 
Thy Bar, 

We may be glad as all true lovers 
are 

Who having parted, count reunion 
sweet. • . • 

Oh, if our brother's blood cry out at 
us, 

How shall we meet Thee Who hast 
loved us all. 

Thee whom we never loved, not lov- 
ing him? 

The unloving cannot chant with 
Seraphim, 

Bear harp of gold, or palm victori- 
ous. 

Christina Rossetti^ 



64 



EPIPHANY III 

ABOVE THE BATTLE FIELD 

T F thine enemy hunger, feed him ; 
^ if he thirst, give him drink. 

That we live peaceably with all men, 
as much as lieth in us, and that we 
overcome evil with good. 

We beseech Thee to hear us, Good 
Lord. 



65 



JANUARY 25 



Sunday — 

1L7"E have heard that it was said, 
^ Thou shalt love thy neighbor 
and hate thine enemy: but I say 
unto you, Love your enemies and 
pray for them that persecute you; 
that ye may be sons of your Father 
which is in heaven: . . /Tor if ye 
love them that love you what reward 
have ye? do not even the publicans 
the same? . . . Ye therefore shall be 
perfect, as your Heavenly Father is 
perfect. 

S. Matthew, V. J^S-J^S. 



m 



JANUARY 26 



Monday — 

T^HE Lord says in the gospel, 
Love your enemies, etc. He 
truly loves his enemy who does not 
grieve because of the wrong done to 
himself, but who is afflicted for love 
of God because of the sin on his 
brother's soul, and who shows his 
love by his works. 

Writings of S, Francis: Tr, by Father 

Paschal Robinson, 



67 



JANUARY 27 



Tuesday — 

A ND so thy God saith to thee, 
•^^ ''See, I do avenge thee, I do 
slay thine enemy. I take away that 
which makes him evil, I preserve 
that which constitutes him a man: 
now if I shall have made him a good 
man, have I not slain thine enemy 
and made him thy friend?" So ask 
in what thou art asking not that the 
men may perish, but that these their 
enmities may perish. For if thou 
pray for this that the man may die: 
it is the prayer of one wicked man 
against another; and when thou dost 
say "Slay the wicked one," God an- 
swereth thee, ''Which of you?" 

St. Augustine, 



68 



JANUARY 28 



Wednesday/ — • 

"VrONE can deny that wide di- 
^ visions exist: angry workmen 
over against angry employers; cities 
of the poor, grimly monotonous, be- 
side the quarters of the rich; large 
bodies of labor brought by a sud- 
den frost to famine, while capital 
cannot find employment; whole 
tracts of human beings . . . with- 
out insight into each other's fears 
and hopes: here are the divisions, 
fruitless and deepening, created by 
our civilization, half ignored by our 
politics, calling aloud to our religion. 
. . . The reconciliation of estranged 
men, — that is the first thing we have 
to work for. 

r. C. Fry. 



m 



JANUARY 29 



Thursday — 

rpHE fact that such a calamity 
^ as this world war could come 
compels a rigorous scrutiny of the 
underlying principles of our civiliza- 
tion. It is a summons to the Chris- 
tian church to challenge a social 
order based upon mutual distrust 
and selfish competition. It is a 
summons in penitence to renounce 
and oppose the principles of national 
aggrandizement at the expense of 
other peoples, of economic selfishness 
seeking to control the world's re- 
sources, trade routes, and markets. 
It is a summons to the Christian 
discipleship to bring forth the fruits 
of repentance in labor for a new 
world order. 

The Church in Time of War, Federal 
Council of Churches of Christ in 

America, 1917. 



TO 



JANUARY 30 



Fiiday — 

npHE first thing to do is to pray 
sensibly and deeply, not for 
material victory over a material foe, 
but for spiritual victory over a 
spiritual foe; that this nation and 
all nations may become worthy of 
the extended life they crave; that 
the diabolic spirit of war, whether it 
manifests itself in the ghastly con- 
vulsion of shot and shell, or whether, 
vampire-like, it slowly drains the 
life-blood of a nation by its bitter 
class jealousy, its materialism, its 
mammon-worship, may be forever 
banished from our lives. 

JS. M. Venables. 



71 



JANUARY 31 



Saturday — 

nnHERE is no warmer weather 
* than after watery clouds, 
Nor is love sweeter nor are friends 

dearer, 
Than after war and wrack, when 

Love and Peace have gotten the 

victory. 

Langland: The Vision of Piers the 

Plowman. 



72 



SEPTUAGESIMA 



A LIVING WAGE 



l^RIEND, I do thee no wrong. 
Take that thine is and go thy 
way; I will give unto this last 
even as unto thee. 



For grace to secure a living wage for 

all men, 
We beseech Thee to hear us, Good 

Lord. 



73 



FEBRUARY 1 



Sunday — 

nPHE best labour always has been, 
and is, as all labour ought to be, 
paid by an invariable standard. 

''What!" the reader, perhaps, an- 
swers amazedly; ''pay good and bad 
workmen alike?" 

Certainly. . . , The natural and 
right system respecting all labour is, 
that it should be paid at a fixed rate, 
but the good workman employed and 
the bad workman unemployed 

John Ruskin: Unto this Last, 



T^ROM each according to his capac- 
^ ity: to each according to his 
needs. 

Saint Simon. 



74 



FEBRUARY 2 



Monday, The Purification — 

TV/f Y soul doth magnify the Lord ; 
and my sph^it hath rejoiced in 
God my Saviour. 

For He hath regarded the lowh- 
ness of His handmaiden. 

For behold, from henceforth all 
generations shall call me blessed. . . . 

He hath showed strength with His 
arm; He hath scattered the proud in 
the imagination of their hearts. 

He hath put down the mighty 
from their seat; and hath exalted 
the humble and meek. 

He hath filled the hungry with 
good things; and the rich He hath 
sent empty away. 

The Blessed Virgin. 



75 



FEBRUARY 3 



Tuesday — 

T F the principle proclaimed by the 
^ Church that the reward of labour 
is the first charge upon industry is 
really taken seriously, we shall have 
made a big step towards settling the 
whole question. Not long ago al- 
most any body of employers would 
have said that the wages which can 
be paid must depend upon the price 
that is secured for the goods. Now, 
we believe that most big employers 
would say that the price must be 
fixed for goods so as to make pos- 
sible the payment of a proper wage. 
Clearly the change is fundamental. 

The Challenge, 1918. 



76 



FEBRUARY 4 



Wednesday — 

IT was largely because the Church 
^ appeared as a society making the 
welfare of all its members its con- 
trolling principle in the acquisition 
and distribution of wealth that it 
made the great progress which his- 
tory records in the world of the 
Roman Empire. . . • It is time that 
the Christian Church should make 
clear to itself the nature of the de- 
mand for the reconstruction of so- 
ciety which is at present urged upon 
us. . . . It is bound to consider 
whether the charge against the pres- 
ent constitution and principles of the 
industrial world and the present di- 
vision of the profits of industry is a 
just charge. 

Report of Joint Commission to Con- 
vocation of Canterbury, 1907. 



77 



FEBRUARY 5 



Thursday — 

IT AVE ye founded your thrones 
and altars, then 

On the bodies and souls of living 
men? 

And think ye that building shall en- 
dure, 

Which shelters the noble and crushes 
the poor? 

James Russell Lowell. 



VTEW YORK CITY has fifty- 
^^ five homes maintained for girls 
whose wages will not allow them to 
live in ordinary dwellings. 

The New Spirit in Industry: F. Ernest 

Johnson. 



78 



FEBRUx\RY 6 



Friday — 

T^HE first principle of the Labor 
Party ... in significant con- 
trast with those of the Capitalist 
system — is the securing to every 
member of the community in good 
times and bad alike (and not only 
to the strong and able, the well-born 
or fortunate) of all the requisites of 
healthy life and worthy citizenship. 
This is in no sense a class proposal. 
Such an amount of social protection 
to every individual affords the only 
complete safeguard against that in- 
sidious degradation of the standard of 
life which is the worst economic and 
social catastrophe to which any com- 
munity can be subjected. 

Reconstruction Program, British Labor. 

Parti/, 1918. 



w 



FEBRUARY 7 



Saturday — 

A LL good Christians believe, of 
^^^^ course, that they ought to love 
their neighbors as themselves; but 
there are many among them who 
need help in answering the question, 
"Who is my neighbor?" The idea 
that the operatives in his factory, the 
brakemen on his freight trains, the 
miners in his coal mines are his 
neighbors, is an idea that does not 
come home to many a good Chris- 
tian* . . . Over the entrance to the 
thronging avenues and the humming 
workshops of the industrial realm, 
an un-moral science has written, in 
iron letters: ''All love abandon, ye 
that enter here!" . . • The first busi- 
ness of the Church of God is tb pireach 
that legend^d^wn, a;nU to pHit in plaice 
of it: "Yoiir , wage-worlier is yooir 
nearest neighbor/' 

Washington Gladden. 
80 



SEXAGESIMA 



CHRISTIAN HEROISM 

TN labors more abundant, in stripes 
-■" above measure, in prisons more 
frequent, in deaths oft. 

For power to clear the ground from 
the cares of this world and the de- 
ceitfulness of riches, 

We beseech Thee to hear us, Good 
Lord. 



81 



FEBRUARY 8 



Sunday — 

/CHRISTIANITY is not a school 
^^ for the teaching of moral virtue, 
the polishing our manners or form- 
ing us to live a life of this world with 
decency and gentility. It implies an 
entire change of life. . . . Death is 
not more certainly a separation of our 
souls from our bodies than the Chris- 
tian life is a separation of our souls 
from worldly tempers. 

Willium Law: Christian Perfection. 



82 



FEBRUARY 9 



Monday — 

A^ITHIN the short earthly years 
^ ^ during which the Life passed 
before men, there is always the spirit 
of adventure. It begins in boyhood 
among the Temple doctors. He has 
no home: no regular and secluded 
routine. No! He wanders at ran- 
dom: He depends upon charity. 
Then He adventures Himself. He 
calls upon others to take risks too. 
That is the very soul of the de- 
mands He makes. . . . "Follow 
Me." Adventurers all. 

If only here and there men would 
. . . do big and bold and rash deeds 
in the Name and for the sake of 
Him who ''made Himself of no 
reputation and took upon Him the 
form of a servant and was made in 
the likeness of man," what might not 

happen? Henry Scott Holland. 

83 



FEBRUARY 10 



Tuesday — 

TpVERY degree of luxury hath 
^^ some connection with evil; and 
if those who profess to be disciples 
of Christ, and are looked upon as 
leaders of the people, have that in 
them which was also in Christ, and 
so stand separate from every wrong 
way, it is a means of help to the 
weaker. 

Journal of John Woolman, 1757. 



84 



FEBRUARY 11 



Wednesday — 

/^URS, by his birth beneath our 
^-^ western sky, 
Ours, by the flag he died to save. 
Ours, by the home-fields of his labor, 

and by 
The home-earth of his grave! 

But hark! as if some league-long 
barrier broke . . . 

I hear the voices of the outland folk 

From sea to sea — yea, rolling over- 
sea: 

"You shall not limit his large glory 
thus, 

You shall not mete his greatness 
with a span! 

This man belongs to us. 

Gentile and Jew, Teuton and Celt 
and Russ 

And whatso else we be! 

This man belongs to Man!" 

Helen Gray Cone: Ode to Lincoln, 
85 



FEBRUARY 12 



Thursday, Lincoln s Birthday — 

n^HE dogmas of the quiet past 
^ are inadequate to the stormy 
present. The occasion is piled high 
with difficulty and we must rise to 
the occasion. As our case is new, so 
we must think anew and act anew. 
We must disenthrall ourselves and 
then we shall save our country. 

Abraham Lincoln, 



VTO personal significance or in- 
^^ significance can spare one or 
another of us. The fiery trial through 
which we are passing will light us 
down in honor or dishonor to the 
latest generation. . . . We shall 
nobly save or meanly lose the last, 
best hope of earth. 

Abraham Lincoln, 



86 



FEBRUARY 13 



Friday — 

TT was not a mere desire to bring 
relief to those in trouble that 
prompted Lincoln's pardons and 
made him unable to say no to a re- 
quest. It was rather that extraor- 
dinary sympathy which compels men 
to live the suffering of their fel- 
lows, to recognize and accept as 
genuine the faint glimmerings of 
penitence in the criminal, to at- 
tribute to others as their own, vir- 
tues reflected from itself.. Without 
this quality a master mind may be 
able to lead the strong and perhaps 
to dominate the weak — never to lead 
the weak into that independent 
strength which is born only of dar- 
ing trust and irrepressible expect- 
ancy. 

Bishop Brent: The Inspiration of Re- 
sponsibility, Longmans. 



87 



FEBRUARY 14 



Saturday — 

npHE caviler pauses and shrugs 
^ . • • What we outsiders need 
in order to convince us that you 
Christians have indeed ''broken 
through into reality/' is to see those 
who can command luxury, choosing 
poverty so long as their brothers 
want; those who mi^ht rule men, in- 
dustrially or politically, becoming 
true servants of the democracy. It 
is to find Christians voting in public 
matters steadily against their own 
class-interests^ and in private life 
literally caring more to share than to 
own. This spectacle, we grant, would 
be an effective proof of a divine re- 
ligion. . . . Obvious economic sacri- 
fice on the part of Christians at large 
is the only sound means to silence the 
reiterated sneer of the materialistic 
radical who threatens our civilization. 

Vida D, Scudder: The Church and the 

Hour. 

88 



QUINQUAGESIMA 
LOVE 

rjl HOUGH I bestow all my goods 
to feed the poor, and have 
not Love, it profiteth me nothing. 

That we may receive our sight, 
We beseech Thee to hear us, Good 
Lord. 



89 



FEBRUARY 15 



Sunday — - 

T BESEECH Thee O Lord, that 

-'' the fiery and sweet strength of 

Thy love may absorb my soul from 

all things that are under Heaven, 

that I may die for love of Thy love 

as Thou didst deign to die for love 

of my love. 

Writings of St. Francis: Tr. Fr, Pas- 
chal Robinson. 



90 



FEBRUARY 16 



Monday — 

i^UR Lord asks but two things of 
^-^ us: love for Him and for our 
neighbor. ... I think the most cer- 
tain sign that we keep these two 
commandments is that we have a 
genuine love for others. We can- 
not know whether we love God, al- 
though there may be strong reasons 
for thinking so, but there can be no 
doubt about whether we love our 
neighbor or no. Be sure that in pro- 
portion as you advance in fraternal 
charity, you are increasing in your 
love of God. . . . Human nature is 
so evil that we could not feel a perfect 
charity for our neighbor unless it 
were rooted in the love of God. 

St. Teresa: The Interior Castle. 



91 



FEBRUARY 17 



Tuesday--^ 

r>UT thilke Love, which that is 
^^ Within a mannes heart affirmed 
And stands of Charity confirmed, 
Such love is goodly for to have; 
Such love may the soul amend — 
The High God such love us send, 
Forthwith the remenant of grace. 
So that above in thilke place 
Where resteth Love and alle Peace, 
Our joy may be endeless, 

John Gower: Confessio A mantis. 



92 



FEBRUARY 18 



Ash Wednesday/ — 

TS not this the fast that I have 
^ chosen? to loose the bands of 
wickedness, to undo the heavy bur- 
dens, and to let the oppressed go 
free, and that ye break every yoke? 
Is it not to deal thy bread to the 
hungry, and that thou bring the poor 
that are cast out to thy house? when 
thou seest the naked, that thou cover 
him; and that thou hide not thyself 
from thine own flesh ? 

Isaiah, LVIII. 



m 



FEBRUARY 19 



Thursday — 

I^ORASMTJCH therefore as your 
^ treading is upon the poor, and ye 
take from him burdens of wheat: ye 
have built houses of hewn stone, but 
ye shall not dwell in them; ye have 
planted pleasant vineyards, but ye 
shall not drink wine of them. For 
I know your manifold transgressions 
and your mighty sins : they afflict the 
just, they take a bribe, and they turn 
aside the poor in the gate from their 
right. Therefore the Lord, the God 
of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wail- 
ing shall be in all streets; and they 
shall say in all the highways, Alas, 
alas! . . . Shall not the day of the 
Lord be darkness, and not light? even 
very dark, and no brightness in it? 

Amos, V. 



94 



FEBRUARY 20 



Friday — 

/^ GOD of our fathers, we desire 
^-^ to make before Thee a solemn 
act of penitence on behalf of the 
Church. We her children have done 
little to further Thy Kingdom on 
earth by the establishment of social 
justice. Pardon all indifference to- 
ward the sufferings of those who 
labor; pardon all bitterness toward 
those who abound. Forgive us for 
having allowed injustice and oppres- 
sion to remain too often unrebuked 
and unredressed. We confess our 
sins and shortcomings with grief and 
shame: humbly beseeching Thee to 
forgive us and to enlighten us, and 
to endue Thy Holy Church with 
power to break every yoke and to 
let the oppressed go free. Through 
Jesus Christ Our tord. Amen. 

S, C. H. C. Manual. 
9S 



FEBRUARY 21 



Saturday — 

A ND will ye sit in sackcloth? 
^^^ And will ye weep and pray? 
And will ye bow your ashy heads 
That broken-bulrush way? 

What sins be these ye flee from? 

What wrong do ye repent? 
Now think ye if ye cry, Lord, Lord, 

That ye have kept His Lent? 

Ah, choose to feed the hungry! 

Last night ye stole his bread; 
Ah, choose to set the bondman free, 

His price is on your head. 

Ah, choose to lift the burden 
Your brother still must bear, 

Undo the cords, lift off the load. 
'Tis yours, yfe laid it there. 

Florence Converse. 



06 



LENT I 

THE FAST 

V. As dying and behold we live; 
as poor yet making many rich; as 
having nothing and yet possessing all 
things. 

R. Now is the accepted time. 

From the temptations which beset 
Christ in the wilderness, 

Good Lord deliver us. 



97 



FEBRUARY 22 



Sunday, Washington s Birthday — 

T T is the pregnant idealism of the 
* multitude which gives power to 
the makers of great nations, other- 
wise the prophets of civilization are 
helpless as preachers in the desert 
and solitary places. 

A. E.: Imaginations and Reveries. 



rpHERE can be no final goal 
^ for human institutions; the 
best are those that most encourage 
progress toward others still better. 
Without effort and change, human 
life cannot remain good. It is not 
a finished Utopia that we ought to 
desire, but a world where imagination 
and hope are alive and active. 

Bertrand Russell: Political Ideals 



98 



FEBRUARY 23 



Monday — 

T T N WR AP thyself of many 
^^ things and fine, 
He who with Christ would dine 
Shall see no table bounteously 

spread, 
But fish and barley bread. 
Where didst thou read Our Saviour 

bade thee pray, 
''Give us our sumptuous fare from 

day to day"? 

Francis Bourdillon. 



99 



FEBRUARY 24 



Tuesday — 

lyl/EKE there no self-will, there 
^ ^ would also be no ownership. 
In Heaven there is no ownership; 
hence there are found content, true 
peace, and all blessedness. If any 
one there took upon him to call any- 
thing his own, he would straightway 
be thrust out into hell, and would 
become an evil spirit. . . . He who 
hath something or seeketh or longeth 
to have something of his own, is 
himself a slave, and he who hath 
nothing of his own, nor seeketh nor 
longeth thereafter, is free and at 
large and in bondage to none. 

Johann Tauter: Theologica Germanica, 



100 



FEBRUARY 25 



Wednesday — 

f^ AME those gray gowns from 

^ Italy. 

And this was all they had to teach : 
Thrice blessed is Saint Poverty; 

As poor yet making many rich^ 
As having nought, possessing all. 
Stitchless, to folk without a stitch 

They sang this life a madrigal; 
And why Our Lady chose an inn, 
And bare her Son in oxen stall. 



Thus Francis mixt the stirrup-cup, 
And sped our Brother Bonaccord 
To proffer it for Hodge to sup : 

And Hodge drank deep and prais'd 
the Lord. 

Maurice Hewlett: The Song of the Plow. 



101 



FEBRUARY 26 



Thursday — 

A/T INE is all the Saxon land, 
^ ^ Burgundy I hold in my hand, 
River and lake and sea and spring, 
Hurrying winds and birds on the 
wing 

Sun, moon, sky, and stars of night 
Hearken up there in the height 

Are mine, all mine, dear delight, 
My singers sing for me. 

Now since it's pleased the King of 

Kings 
To Heaven I mount on lusty wings. 

To make me lord o'er many things 

My path is straight and free. 

Jacopone da Todi: Sons of Francis. 
Tr, Anne Macdonnell. 

102 



FEBRUARY 27 



Friday — 

T HAVE a golden ball, 
^ A big bright shining one, 
Pure gold; and it is all 
Mine. It is the sun. 

I have a silver ball, 
A white and glistering stone 
That other people call 
The moon; — ^my very own. 

And everything that's mine 
Is yours, and yours, and yours, — 
The shimmer and the shine! 
Let's lock our wealth out-doors! 

Florence Converse: A Masque of Sibyls. 



103 



FEBRUARY 28 



Saturday — 

AIL, Queen Wisdom! May 



the Lord save thee with thy 
sister, holy pure SimpHcity! O Lady, 
Holy Poverty, may the Lord save 
thee with thy sister Holy Humility! 
O Lady, Holy Charity, may the 
Lord save thee vv^ith thy sister, Holy 
Obedience! O all ye most holy vir- 
tues, may the Lord from whom you 
proceed and come, save you! There 
is absolutely no man in the whole 
v/orld v/ho can possess one among 
you, unless lie first die. 

Writings of St, Francis. Tr. Fr, Pas- 
chal Robinson, 



104 



LENT II 



THE SINS OF THE CHURCH 



T^OR this is the will of God, even 
your sanetification. 

From all uncleanness and injustice, 
Good Lord deliver us. 



105 



FEBRUARY 29 



Sunday — 

A ND I will come near to you to 
^^ judgment; and I will be a swift 
witness against the sorcerers, and 
against the adulterers, and against 
false swearers, and against those that 
oppress the hireling in his wages, 
the widow, and the fatherless, and 
that turn aside the stranger from his 
right, and fear not me, saith the 
Lord of hosts. 

Malachi, III. 



106 



MARCH 1 



Monday — 

/^NE stoopeth over thee 

^^ From Whom thou mayst not 

flee. 
His gracious Form and holy Head 
As very man's are fashioned, 
And pitiful exceedingly 
His Face and full of clemency. 
"I am come down the Heavenly 

Stair," 
He saith, ''to make the soiled fair." 
He saith, ''to make the soiled fair." 
George Seymour Hollings, S. S. J. £. 



107 



MARCH 2 



Tuesday — 

/^URS is the sin of a Christendom 
^^ which confesses Christ but will 
not have Him to reign; which has 
limited His authoritj^ to private oc- 
casions, and has excluded it in pub- 
lic and social affairs; a Christendom 
which has told Christ to mind His 
own business (which is the saving of 
souls), and to let society and the 
world alone. Germany perfected 
that sin; are we clear of it? 

H. J. Wotherspoon. 



108 



MARCH 3 



Wednesday — 

'T^HE confession of sin should 
above all, in collective worship, 
apply to collective sin, — to that sin- 
fulness of society which Christ would 
denounce if he came again among us. 
The vigor of that denunciation 
would, I expect, eclipse anything 
now heard from pulpits; though it 
would, I believe, take an unpopular 
and unexpected direction, ... it would 
attack the heartless and contented 
acquiescence in conditions which de- 
base the soul of a people and erect 
the extravagant luxury of a few on 
the grinding poverty of many. 

We are verily guilty concerning 
our brother. 

Sir Oliver Lodge, 



lOf 



MARCH 4 



Thursday — 

"VrOT the least tragic aspect of 
^ Church life today, is the fact 
that the world has come practically 
to ignore us in so far as any power 
and right to utter ourselves in re- 
gard to the constitution of the social 
order goes. It is taken for granted 
that we have nothing to say, nothing 
to contribute. Men turn everywhere 
else before they turn to the Church 
for policies and plans for the re- 
building of a bewildered society. 
This surely ought to be felt as a 
terrible reproach resting upon us all. 
The work of reconstruction ought 
to be that of all others in which the 
Church leads the world. 

The Commonwealth. 



110 



MARCH 5 



Friday — 

npHE rich cry to one another: 
^ "The poor are our curse; we 
must get rid of poverty." They do 
not say to one another: "We are the 
curse, with our luxuries, sordidness, 
pride, vanity and selfishness." We 
have been called upon again and 
again to sit on committees and con- 
sider the sins of the Bowery. Who 
calls a meeting to consider the sins 
of Fifth Avenue? 

Bishop Huntington. 



Ill 



MARCH 6 



Saturday — 

r\ GOD, Who didst send Thy 
^^ word to speak in the prophets 
and live in Thy Son, and appoint 
Thy Church to be a witness of di- 
vine things in all the world: revive 
the purity and deepen the power of 
its testimony; and through the din 
of earthly interests and the storm of 
human passions, let it make the still 
small voice of Thy Spirit only felt. 
By the cleansing Spirit of Thy Son, 
make this world a fitting forecourt to 
that sanctuary not made with hands, 
where our life is hid with Christ in 
God. Amen. 

James Martineau. 



112 



LENT III 

A Week with St. Chrysostom 

COVETOUSNESS 

"OUT covetousness, let it not be 
once named among you as be- 
cometh saints; for no covetous man 
hath any inlieritanee in the King- 
dom of God. 

From covetousness, which is 
idolatry, 

Good Lord, deliver us. 



113 



MARCH 7 



Sunday — 

rpHE covetous man also is a thief 
^ and robber far worse than the 
other, by how much he is also more 
tyrannical. He, indeed, by being 
concealed, and by making his attack 
in the night, cuts off much of the 
audacity of the attempt as if he were 
ashamed and feared to sin. But the 
other, having no sense of shame, with 
open face in the middle of the mar- 
ket-place, steals the property of all, 
being at once a thief and a tyrant. 
He does not break through walls 
nor open a chest, nor tear off seals. 
But he does things more insolent 
than these. . . . Let us therefore, 
both rich and poor, cease from tak- 
ing the pifbperty of others. 

Saint Chryiostom, 



114! 



MARCH 8 



Monday — 

TTOW shall we put off our dis- 
^ ^ honest gain? He that wishes 
to put off covetous gain does not 
give a little out of a great deal, but 
many times more than he has robbed 
and he ceases from robbing. But 
thou, taking wrongfully ten thou- 
sand talents, if thou give a few 
drachmas thinkest thou hast restored 
the whole, and art affected as if 
thou hast given more. 

Saint Chrysostom. 



115 



MARCH 9 



Tuesday — 

T T is not possible to serve God and 
-■• Mammon, for Mammon giveth 
commands contradictory to God. 
The one says, "Give to them that 
need;" the other, "Plunder the goods 
of the needy." Christ saith, "For- 
give them that wrong thee;" the 
other, "Prepare snares against those 
that do thee no wrong." Christ saith, 
"Be merciful and kind." Mammon 
saith, "Be savage and cruel, and 
count the tears of the poor as noth- 
ing." What excuse, tell me, shall 
they have who . . . seize that [the 
substance] of others and overthrow 
orphans' houses? What consolation 
shall they enjoy who plunder what 
belongs not to them at all, who weave 
ten thousand lawsuits, who unjustly 
grasp the property of all men? 

Saint Chrysosiom. 
116 



MARCH 10 



Wednesday — 

T CALL cut-purses alike the man 
-*• who cuts through a purse and 
takes the gold and him who, buying 
from any of the market people de- 
ducts something from the proper 
price ; nor is he the only housebreaker 
who breaks through a wall and steals 
anything within, but that man, also, 
who corrupts justice, and takes any- 
thing from his neighbor. 

Saint Chrysostom. 



117 



MARCH 11 



Thursday — 

OO destructive a passion is avarice 
^ that to grow rich without in- 
justice is impossible. . . . Because 
God in the beginning made not one 
man rich and another poor, nor did 
He afterwards show to one treasures 
of gold and deny to others the right 
of searching for it; but he left the 
earth free to all alike. Why, then, 
if it is common, have you so many 
acres of land and your neighbor has 
not a portion of it? 

Saint Chrysostom. 



118 



MARCH 12 



Friday — 

rpHOU, therefore, though thou 
^ seest him [who has invited to a 
feast] that sitteth at meat defiled 
with this filth [wealth acquired by 
"over-reaching"] dost thou feel as if 
forsooth, thou wert highly honored? 
Tell me, if such a person should 
invite thee to a banquet, thee who 
art accounted poor and mean, and 
then should hear thee say, "Inas- 
much as the things which are set 
before me are the fruits of over- 
reaching I will not endure to defile 
my own soul," would he not be con- 
founded? would he not be ashamed? 
This alone were sufficient to correct 
him, and to make him call himself 
wretched for his wealth, and admire 
thee for thy poverty if he saw him- 
self with so great earnestness de- 
spised by thee. Saint Chrysostom. 

119 



MARCH IS 



Saturday — 

t^OR they [the Apostolic Chris- 
'■' tians] did not give in part and 
in part reserve ; nor yet in giving all 
give it as their own. And they lived 
moreover, in great abundance; they 
removed all inequality from among 
them and made a goodly order. And 
with great respect they did this; for 
they did not presume to give into 
their hands, nor did they ostenta- 
tiously present, but brought to the 
Apostles' feet. To them they left it 
to be the dispensers, made them the 
owners, that thenceforth all should 
be defrayed as from common, not 
from private property. • . . Let us 
now depict this state of things in 
words, and derive at least this pleas- 
ure from it, since you have no mind 
for it in your actions. 

Saint Chrysostom. 
120 



LENT IV 

FREEDOM AND BREAD 

JERUSALEM which is above is 
*-' free, which is the mother of us 
all. 

That He Who fed the five thou- 
sand in a grassy place will help us 
to lead the hungry into green pas- 
tures and to feed them there, 

We beseech Thee to hear us, Good 
Lord. 



121 



MARCH 14 



Sunday — 

PNGLAND! Awake! awake! 
^^ awake! 

Jerusalem thy sister calls! 
Why wilt thou sleep the sleep of 
death. 
And close her from thine ancient 
walls? 

Bring me my bow of burning gold, 
Bring me my arrows of desire ! 

Bring me my spear! O clouds un- 
fold! 
Bring me my chariot of fire! 

I will not cease from mental fight, 
Nor shall my sword sleep in my 
hand 
Till we have built Jerusalem 

In England's green and pleasant 
land. 

William Blake, 

122 



MARCH 15 



Monday — 

TJUNGER of the world, 
-*- *^ When we ask for grace, 
Be remembered here with us. 
By the vacant place. 

Thirst, with naught to drink. 

Sorrow more than mine. 
May God some day make you laugh 

With water turned to wine. 

Josephine Preston Peabody Marks. 



123 



MARCH 16 



Tuesday — 

/^RANT body and soul each day 

^^ their daily bread! 

And should in spite of grace fresh 

woe begin, 
Even as our anger soon is past and 

dead 
Be Thy remembrance mortal of our 

sin: 
By Thee in paths of peace Thy 

sheep be led, 
And in the vale of terror comforted. 

Robert Bridges. 



124 



MARCH 17 



Wednesday — 

npHE chief judge of the Canton 
^ Unterwalden made a remark- 
able speech. As a Catholic and a 
lawyer he had long felt that the 
Church was relying far too exclu- 
sively on spiritual methods in deal- 
ing with social misery. She ought 
to care more directly for the total 
abolition of the bodily miseries of 
the oppressed proletariat, after the 
example of Christ, who ... taught 
by a miracle that the people should 
have bread enough and to spare. . . . 
''Christendom alone can solve the 
social question. It will never be 
solved by the mere working on the 
heart and conscience of the in- 
dividual. The Spirit of Christen- 
dom, the laws of the Divine Spirit 
must be incorporated in the Laws 

of the State.'' e. D. Girdlestone. 

125 



MARCH 18 



Thursday — 

n E SOLVED, That it is the mind 
^ of the Council that the highest 
form of Christian social service is 
the establishment of social justice, 
that is to say, of a condition of life 
wherein the fruits of industry shall 
be so distributed that every human 
being shall have a chance to live a 
full human life, with due chance for 
the preservation of bodily health, 
the cultivation of mental powers, and 
the exercise of spiritual faculties; 
and, further, that no merely amelior- 
ative or charitable activities can ever 
take the place of this fundamental 
duty." 

Social Service Commission of the 
Diocese of Fond du Lac» 



126 



MARCH 19 



Friday — 

]\/r Y brethren, have not the faith 
^ of our Lord Jesus Christ the 
Lord of glory with respect of per- 
sons. . . . Hath not God chosen the 
poor of this world rich in faith, and 
heirs of the kingdom which he hath 
promised to them that love Him? 
But ye have despised the poor. . . . 
If a brother or sister be naked, and 
destitute of daily food, and one of you 
say ui^to thiem, Depart in peace, be 
ye warmed and filled; notwithstand- 
ing ye give them not those things 
that are needful to the body; what 
doth it profit? 

Epistle of St. James. 



127 



MARCH 20 



Saturday — 

T^OOD and drink, roof and clothes 
^ are the inahenable right of every 
child born into the light. If the 
world does not provide it freely — 
not as a grudging gift but as a right, 
as a son of the house sits down to 
breakfast — then is the world mad. 
But the world is not mad, only in 
ignorance • • . an interested ignor- 
ance, kept up by strenuous exertions, 
from which infernal darkness it will, 
in course of time, emerge, marvelling 
at the past as a man wonders at and 
glories in the light who has escaped 
from blindness. 

Richard Jewries: The Story of my Heart. 



J28 



LENT V 



SOCIAL SALVATION 

/^ HRIST entered in once into the 
^^ holy place, having obtained eter- 
nal redemption for us. 

That the Blood of Christ may 
purify our consciencies from dead 
works to serve the Living God, 

We beseech Thee to hear us, Good 
Lord. 



129 



MARCH 21 



Sunday — 

TESUS said: Wouldst thou love 
^ one who never died 
For thee, or ever die for one who had 

not died for thee ? 
And if God dieth not for Man and 

giveth not Himself 
Eternally for Man, Man could not 

exist; for Man is Love, 
As God is Love: every kirdness to 

another is a little Death 
In the Divine Image; nor can Man 

exist but by Brotherhood. 

William Blake, 



J30 



MARCH 22 



Monday — 

A GONIES are one of my changes 
"^^^ of garments, 
I do not ask the wounded person 

how he feels, I myself become the 

wounded person. 

Walt Whitman. 



P> Y the shedding of the Blood of 
^^ Christ Our Lord, peace has been 
established in heaven and earth. 

Galilean Sacramentary. 



131 



MARCH 23 



Tuesday — 

nPHE Law of the Cross must be 
the inner strength of a Society 
that would realize brotherhood. 
Vicarious atonement! It has been 
the most scorned of all Christian 
doctrines. Yet it is superbly demo- 
cratic, and the slow education of the 
race is bringing us to the point where 
it must come to its own, the culmi- 
nating expression of the intuitions 
fostered by the New Order. Through 
Christian history the doctrine has 
been a germ of growth, training the 
selfish peoples to a dim and confused 
perception that no man liveth or 
dieth to himself, and that there are 
no depths, spiritual or physical, at 
which he lies powerless to help his 
brother. 
Vida D. Scudder: Socialism and Character* 

132 



MARCH 24 



I 



Wednesday — 

N the unity of the body, it is pos- 
sible for one member to take 
away the infirmity and disease of 
another by taking them to himself. 
Taught in this great school, our 
hearts respond to the words of a 
Chinese king contemporary with 
Jacob, who said to his people: 
''When guilt is found anywhere in 
you who occupy the myriad regions, 
let it rest on me, the One Man." 



Bishop Westcott: Christus Consum- 

mator. 



133 



MARCH 25 



Thursday J The Annunciation — 

"C^ROM the remembering flesh that 

^ in it bore 

The thoughts of old dead peoples 
and their dreams, 

I made Thee, O Lord. 

From the flesh of the fool that laugh- 
ing in his heart 

Cried with an empty voice, ''There is 
no God/' 

I made Thee, O Lord. 

From our desire and from our mortal 

need. 
From the prayer we raise and our 
delight in Thee, 

I created Thee, God. 

Anna Hempstead Branch. 



184 



MARCH 26 



Friday — 

T WOULD have looked from the 
^ Cross and I durst not; for I wist 
well whiles that I beheld the Cross I 
was sure and safe. . . . Then had 
I a proffer in my reason, as it 
had been friendly said to me, "Look 
up to heaven to his Father/' . . . 
Here me behoved to look up, or else 
to answer ; I answered inwardly with 
all the might of my soul, and I said, 
''jSTay, I may not, for Thou art my 
heaven" . . . Thus was I learned to 
choose Jesu for my heaven, whom I 
saw only in pain at that time. 

Revelations of Divine Love recorded 

by Julian Anchoress at Norwich. 

Tr. Serenus de Cressy. 



135 



MARCH 27 



Saturday — 

rilO make the world what Christ 
•* would have it be; 
To set the people free, as He is free ; 
• ••••• 

To make the Kingdoms of the world 

His own, 
Choose Him for King, and set Him 

on the throne, 
Whose rule is love. Who laid His 

power away 
That He might learn by suffering to 

obey. 

Democracy informed by God our 

aim; 
No lesser destiny the peoples claim. 
No headless blundering body e'er 

sufficed ; 
Our Head, by whom we live and 

move, is Christ. 

The Commonwealth, 

136 



HOLY WEEK 

THE CROSS 

T ET this mind be in you which 
^^ was also in Christ Jesus. 

By that humility whereby Thou 
didst become obedient unto death, 
Good Lord, deliver us. 



137 



MARCH 28 



Palm Sunday — 

T ET the faithful join with the 
^^ Angels and the children, sing- 
ing to the Conqueror of death, ho- 
sanna in the highest. 

V. Blessed is he that cometh in the 
Name of the Lord. 

R. Hosanna in the highest. 



Lord Jesus Christ, who for the re- 
demption of the world didst ascend 
the wood of the Cross, that thou 
mightest enlighten the whole world 
which lay in darkness; pour that 
light, we pray Thee, into our souls 
and bodies, whereby we may be en- 
abled to attain to the light eternal. 
Who with the Father and the Holy 
Ghost are worshipped and glorified 
world without end. Amen. 

Sarum Missal. 
138 



MARCH 29 



Monday — 

lA/^HAT can the Church do to be 
^ ^ saved? is a question which 
many Churchmen are asking them- 
selves, and the answer comes strange- 
ly close to the New Testament paral- 
lel. The Apostolic order, the deposit 
of faith, the rule of life and all the 
traditions of the past — all these she 
has carefully kept from her youth 
up, but there still seems to be some- 
thing lacking to the fulfillment of 
her true place in the heart of the 
world. It may be that she still needs 
to sell what she has and give to the 
poor and accept the Master's Cross. 

Bishop Paul Jones. 



139 



MARCH 30 



Tuesday — 

THE MAN ON THE CROSS 

The Cry 

A S often as there is silence around 
"^^ me, 
By day or by night, 
I am startled by the cry, 
"Take me down from the cross!" 
The first time I heard it 
I went out and searched 
Until I found a man in the throes 

of crucifixion. 
And I said, "I will take you down/' 
And I tried to take the nails from 

his feet, 
But he said, "Let be; for I cannot 

be taken down 
Till every man, every woman and 

every child 
Come together to take me downJ 



>y 



140 



MARCH 31 



Wednesday — ■ 

BUT I cannot bear your cry/' 
And I said, "What can I do?" 
And he said, "Go about the world 
Telling every one you meet, 
'There is a man upon the cross/ '* 



141 



APRIL 1 



Maundy Thursday — 

The Answer 

T GO about the world 

^ Telling all the rich 

And all the happy and all the com 

fortable, 
''There is a man upon the cross." 
But they all say, 
''We are sure you are mistaken: 
There was a man upon the cross 
Two thousand years ago. 
But he died, and was taken down, 
And was decently buried; 
And a miracle happened 
So that he rose again. 
And ascended into heaven, 
And is happy for evermore." 
Still I go about the world, saying, 
"There is a man upon the cross 
Elizabeth Gibson Cheyne. 



5? 



142 



APRIL 'Z 



Good Friday — 

T THAT am Lord of Life, Love 

^ is my drink 

And for that drink today I died 

upon earth. 
I will drink of no ditch, of no deep 

knowledge, 
But from the Common Cups, all 

Christian Souls. 

Langland: The Vision of Piers the 

Plowman. 



143 



APRIL S 



Saturday, Easter-Even — 

T F we are to make men think seri- 
^ ously of the sacrament of bap- 
tism, the Church itself must show 
that it is being baptized, that it is 
being plunged into the flood of un- 
popularity, of poverty, of acute in- 
tellectual agony, in its search for 
Truth, in the proclamation of the 
Kingdom of God upon earth, in its 
determination to rescue the world 
from its miseries. 

The Commonmecdth. 



/^ RANT, O Lord, that as we are 
^^ baptized into the death of Thy 
blessed Son, so we may be buried 
with Him; and that through the 
grave and gate of death, we may pass 
to otir joyful resurrection. 



EASTER WEEK 

THE VISION OF LIFE 



IN that He liveth, He liveth unto 
God. 
Alleluia! 



That we may reckon ourselves to be 
djead unto sin and alive unto jus- 
tice. 

Good Lord, we thank Thee. 



145. 



APRIL 4 



Sunday, Easter Day — 

O EE, here is angel's bread, 
^ An earnest of that grace 
My Bride shall have when this lorn 

way is trod, 
x4.nd she beholds my face, 
Her Lover and her God . • • 
There, even upon the brink 
Of our transcendent nuptials, thou 

shalt drink 
Deep from the honeyed chalice of 

my pain. 
Then shall I cry, Come, bride and 

pilgrim, rest, 
For earth's long Lent is done; 
The Easter of my soul hath dawned 

ax last* 
Come! at Love's mystie tabk break 

thy fast. 

Evelyn Underhill : Immanenee* 



146 



APRIL 5 



Monday — 

ISE, heart; thy Lord is risen, 



R 



Sing his praise 
Without delays, 
Who takes thee by the hand, that 
thou likewise 

With Him mayst rise. 

George Herbert. 



A SAINT ... is one who fulfils 
'^^^ all past values by transvaluing 
them; who creates new values; who 
is at one with God and himself; at 
war with his relations and neighbors ; 
who yet conceives it his highest privi- 
lege to serve them, and whose love 
for them is bounded only by their 
receptivity, who gives to his age a 
deeper understanding of the mind of 
God. 

Charles Gardner: Vision and Vesture. 
147 



APRIL 6 



Tuesday — 

lESUS says, "Come into relation- 
^ ship with Me, I am the Life ; and 
then go out to live in relationship 
with your fellows as you ought to 
live. ... I am come not to destroy 
human friendships, I am come not as 
the critic of human society, — I am 
come to complete the man who comes 
to Me for life, if he will come into 
relationship to life as I illustrate it, 
as I teach it, as I live it, he will 
come into right relationship with his 
fellows wheresoever he meets them." 

Dean Rousmaniere, 



148 



APRIL 7 



Wednesday — 

rj EJOICE, ye dead, where'er 

^^ your spirits dwell, 

Rejoice that yet on earth your fame 
is bright; 

And that your names, remember'd 
day and night, 

Live on the lips of those that love 
you well. 

'Tis ye that conquer 'd have the pow- 
ers of hell, 

Each with the special grace of your 
delight : 

Ye are the world's creators, and 
thro' might 

Of everlasting love ye did excel. 

Robert Bridges. 



149 



APRIL 8 



Thursday — 

T^ROM furrowed fields the early 
^ grain is shining, and torn hearts, 
cruelly opened to the love of God, 
are healed while they yet suffer. 
From the cleft rock the Son of Life 
appears, . . . Crushed wheat and 
bleeding grape, from measureless 
fields and unnumbered vineyards, 
bring the illimitable life of God with- 
in the compass of our perception, and 
the hungry soul is fed with boundless 
hope and immediate certitude. 

The rough crosses over unnamed 
graves on battlefields, however dis- 
tant and forlorn, are each become a 
tree of life springing from buried 
sacrifice. Though every such grave 
is a reproach to our wanton ambi- 
tions, God grant that each may also 
be the Amen to our finished Creed: 
''I believe in the life everlasting." 

F. C. Lauderburn. 
150 



APRIL 9 



Friday — 

OOUL of the acorn buried in the 

^ sod, 

Lord of high trees and sunset- 
haunted hills, 

Planter of primroses and Very God 
Of the bright daffodils, 

Pity the weakness of the growing 
grain — 

And drench our fields with rain. 

Soul of the Light and Spirit of the 

Sword, 
Flash one great thought through 

hosts of huddled years. 
God of great deeds and dream-in- 
spired Lord 

Of pity and of tears. 
Pity the weary ploughman's barren 

toil- 
Cast sunshine on the soil. 

151 



APRIL 10 



Saturday — 

"pvREAM of dim lights and twi- 

^^ light haunted wind, 

Spirit that moves upon the water's 

face, 
Lighten the wave-washed caverns of 

the mind 

With a pale, starry grace: 
Pity the midnight hours of Death 

and Birth, 
Bring Hope back to the earth. 

Eva Gore-Booth. 



'npiS death, my soul, to be indif- 
^ ferent. 

Set forth thyself unto thy whole ex- 
tent. 

And all the glory of His passion 
prize 

Who for thee lives, who for thee dies. 

Thomas Traherne. 
152 



EASTER I 



A NEW WORLD ORDER 



npmS is the victory that over- 
^ Cometh the world, even our 
faith. 



For grace to set our affections on 

heavenly things, 
We beseech Thee to hear us, Good 

Lord, 



153 



APRIL 11 



Sunday— 

WJ^T I move this matter is 
^ ^ mostly for the poor, 
For in their likeness our Lord hath 

oft been known: 
Witness in the Paschal week, when 

He went to Emmaus; 
Cleophas knew Him not, that He 

Christ were, 
For his poor apparel and pilgrim's 

weed. 
Till he blessed and brake the bread 

that they ate. . . . 

.... for pilgrims are we all. 
And in the apparel of a poor man 

and pilgrim's likeness 
Many times God hath been met 

among needy people, 
Who never saw Him in sect of the 

rich. 

Langland: The Vision of Piers the 

Plowman, 



154 



APRIL 12 



Monday — 

ET us then, my brethren, abstain 



L 



from private property, or at 
least from the love of it, if we can- 
not abstain from its possession: God 
did not create thee alone, but also the 
poor man as well. You will find 
yourselves companions, and are walk- 
ing on the same road. He carries 
nothing, and thou art heavily laden. 
He brings nothing with him, and 
thou more than is needful. Give him 
of what thou hast, and thou wilt both 
feed him and lighten thine own load. 

St, Augustine. 



155 



APRIL 13 



Tuesday — 

r^ LEMENT can find no Chris- 
^^ tain warrant for the man who 
'goes on trying to increase with- 
out limit/' 'On the other hand, he 
goes beyond the primitive Christian 
mode of thought in a modern direc- 
tion when he observes that ''It is im- 
possible that one in want of the nec- 
essaries of life should not be harassed 
in mind and lack leisure for the bet- 
ter things, in trying to provide the 
wherewithal." In TertuUian the 
primitive attitude toward property is 
no less manifest than in his great 
Alexandrine contemporary. ''We 
who mingle in mind and soul," says 
he, "have no hesitation as to fellow- 
ship in property." 

Vernon Bartlet: Essay in The Biblical 
and Early Christian Ideal of 

Property, 

156 



APRIL 14 



Wednesday — 

IV/TAN should not consider his out- 
^ ^ ward possessions as his own, 
but as common to all, so as to share 
them without difficulty when others 
are in need, 

St. Thomas Aquinas. 

/^NLY by taxing and limiting our 
^-^ private possessions and by pro- 
viding a common wealth with which 
to establish healthy conditions and 
wider education, and opportunity 
free to the poorest, can the world be 
opened to the less fortunate of our 
fellows. 
Harold B. Shepheard : Jesus and Politics. 



157 



APRIL 15 



Thursday — 

TT will be objected to holding 
^ goods in common that govern- 
ments will perish because no one 
cares to preserve common property. 
But no, if that law were in force, 
states would be most excellently pre- 
served. . . . For goods are to be 
cared for in proportion to their ex- 
cellence. Now goods held in com- 
mon are the best of all; therefore 
they must be cared for most per- 
fectly. 

John Wyclif : De Dominio Civile, 



158 



APRIL 16 



Fnday — 

T^OR myself I am certain that the 
^ good of human life cannot lie in 
the possession of things which for 
one man to possess is for the rest to 
lose, but rather in things which all 
can possess alike, and where one 
man's wealth promotes his neigh- 
bor's, 

Spinoza. 



159 



APRIL 17 



Saturday — 

PROPERTY for use/' what a 
^ man needs for true freedom, is 
a very limited quantity. Speedily as 
it expands it becomes ''property for 
power." That is where property has 
so manifestly gone wrong. In our 
own civilization we -find vast masses 
who cannot be reasonably described 
as having any adequate measure of 
property for ijse. . . , The Convic- 
tion rises in our minds that we need 
by peaceful means and, if it may be, 
by general consent to accomplish such 
a redistribution of property as shall 
reduce the inordinate amount of 
''property for power'' in the hands of 
the few and give to all men in reason- 
able measure "property for use." 

Bishop Gore: The Biblical and Early 

Christian Ideal of Property, 

Introduction* 

160 



EASTER II 



COMPASSIONATE CARE 

T EAVING us an example that 
^^ we should follow His steps. 

That we may learn shepherding of the 

Good Shepherd. 
We beseech Thee to hear us, Good 

Lord. 



161 



APRIL 18 



Sunday — 

13 ICH is that man who pities 
^ ^ many, and in imitation of God 
bestows from what he hath: for God 
giveth all things to all from His own 
creatures. Understand then, ye rich, 
that ye are in duty bound to do serv- 
ice, having received more than ye 
yourselves need. Learn that to 
others is lacking that wherein ye 
super abound. Be ashamed of hold- 
ing fast that v/hich belongs to others. 
Imitate God's equity and none shall 
be poor. 
The Preaching of Peter, Second Century. 



162^ 



APRIL 19 



Monday — 

T^U^ITHIN a poor man's squalid 
^ ^ home I stood; 
The one bare chamber, where his 

work-worn wife 
Above the stove and wash-tub passed 

her life, 

• ••••• 

I saw a great house with the portals 

wide 

Upon a banquet room, and, from 

without, 
» 

The guests descending in a brilliant 
line 

By the stair's statued niches, and be- 
side 

The loveliest of the gemmed and 
silken rout 

The poor man's landlord leading 
down to dine. 

William Dean How ells, 
163 



APRIL 20 



Tuesday — 

npHERE are many who possess 
^ farms and fields, but all their 
anxiety is to make a bathhouse to 
their mansions, to build entrance 
courts and servants' offices: but how 
the souls of their dependents are cul- 
tivated they care not. If you see 
thorns in a field, you cut them down 
and burn them ; but when you see the 
souls of your laborers beset with 
thorns and cut them not down, tell 
me, do you not fear when you reflect 
on the account v/hich will be exacted 
from you for these things? 

St Chrysostom. 



164 



APRIL 21 



Wednesday — 

T^ERVIDUS is a regular man, and 
'^ exact in the duties of religion, 
but then the greatness of his zeal to 
be doing things that he cannot, makes 
him overlook those little ways of do- 
ing good which are every day in his 
power, . . • Do not believe yourself, 
Fervidus; if you think the care of 
other people's salvation to be the 
happiest business in the world, why 
do you show no concern for the souls 
of your servants? 

William Law: Christian Perfection. 



165 



APRIL 22 

;^ 



Thursday-r- 

\ N old writer says a certain man 
^^^^ had three friends, whom he asked 
to lead him into the presence of the 
king. The first took him half way, 
and could go no further; the second 
took him to the gate of the palace, 
unable to do any more ; the third took 
him into the presence of the king, and 
pleaded his cause for him. The first 
is abstinence, which helps a man to 
start towards God; the second is 
chastity, which brings us where we 
may see God; the third is mercy and 
almsgiving, because it brings us into 
God's very presence, who is ever 
calling from His throne of mercy, 
''Gather My saints together unto 
Me, those that have made a covenant 
with Me with sacrifice." 

TV. C. E. Newholi. 

166 



APRIL 23 



Fiiday — 

npHERE lies the great social op- 
^ portunity of the Church — to 
preach the gospel of the Incarnation 
and try honestly to work out all its 
implications. Her treasured posses- 
sions are worth nothing as long as 
they stand in the way of her supreme 
duty to ''the souls for whom our 
Lord his life laid down." She must 
give to the poor, not of her wealth, 
but all the living that she has. We 
talk of the Church as the extension 
of the Incarnation; but just as the 
latter was not complete until Cal- 
vary, so the Church will not have 
completed her identification until she 
has given herself completely for the 
life of the world. 

Bishop Paul Jones, 



167 



APRIL 24 



Saturday — 

p HRISTIANITY does not call 
^^ on the strong to climb to isola- 
tion across the backs of the weak, 
but challenges them to prove their 
strength by lifting the rest with 
them, 

Walter Rauschenbusch, 



rpHESE people make me feel as if 
^ I were a part of something heavj^ 
sitting on something else, and all the 
time talking about how to make 
things lighter for the thing it's sit- 
ting on. 

John Galsworthy, 

1 PRAYED to God that He 
^ would baptize my heart into a 
sense of the needs and condition of 
all men. 

George Foa, 
168 



EASTER III 

SOCIAL TIES 

O UBMIT yourselves to every ordi- 
^^ nance of man for the Lord's 
sake. 

That we as free men use not our 
freedom as a cloak for malicious- 
ness, 

We beseech Thee to hear us, Good 
Lord. 



169 



APRIL 25 



Sunday — 

T ET us spend a few minutes in 
^^ thinking out a society, a city, in 
which men with our experience and 
our knowledge might live Christ's 
life. If we see beyond the bounds 
of the waste the city of God, we shall 
surely work to establish London in 
its likeness. We shall serve our city. 
Our civic duties will be our religious 
duties; our liturgies will be not only 
those sung by choirs, but, as in the 
Greek city, liturgies will again mean 
the performance by the citizens of 
public duties. A pure liturgy, as 
St. James says, is others' service. 

Canon Barnett, 



170 



APRIL 26 



Monday — 

npHE notion of Discipline and 
^ Interference lies at the very 
root of all human progress or power. 
The Let Alone principle is, in all 
things which man has to do with, the 
principle of death. It is ruin to him, 
certain and total, if he lets his land 
alone, — if he lets his f ellowmen alone, 
— if he lets his own soul alone. 

John Ruskin: A Joy Forever. 



rpHE power and glory of all crea- 
^ tures and all matter consist in 
their obedience, not in their freedom. 
The Sun has no liberty, — a dead leaf 
has much. The dust of which you are 
formed has no liberty. Its liberty 
will come, — with its corruption. 

John Ruskin: The Two Paths. 

171 



APRIL 27 



Tuesday — 

rpHE liberty especially which has 
^ to purchase itself by social iso- 
lation, and each man standing sep- 
arate from the other, having ''no 
business with him" but a cash ac- 
count: this is such a liberty ... as 
the Earth will not long put up with, 
recommend it how you may. This 
liberty turns out ... to be, for the 
Working Millions, a liberty to die 
by want of food; for the Idle Thou- 
sands and Units, alas, a still more 
fatal liberty to live in want of work. 
. . . Brethren, we know but imper- 
fectly yet, after ages of Constitu- 
tional Government, what Liberty 
and Slavery are. 

Thomas Carlyle: Past and Present, 



172 



APRIL 28 



Wednesday — 

"I^^E begin to see liberty as the 
^ ^ very substance of life. . • . 
But for all men, since man is a social 
creature, the play of will must fall 
short of absolute freedom. Perfect 
human liberty is possible only to a 
despot. • . • All other liberty is a 
compromise between our own free- 
dom of will and the wills of those 
with whom we come in contact. 

It follows, therefore, in a modern 
Utopia which finds the final hope of 
the world in the evolving interplay 
of unique individualities, that the 
state will have effectually chipped 
away just all those spendthrift lib- 
erties that waste liberty, and not one 
liberty more, and so have attained 
the maximum general freedom. 

H. G. Wells : A Modern Utopia, 



178 



APRIL 29 



Thursday — 

T F we go back beyond the period 
-*- of storm and stress, and study 
the pohtical and social life of Cathol- 
icism in its more normal attitude in 
the Middle Ages, we shall find a sin- 
gular regard for personal liberty. 
. • . In the rule given by St. Bene- 
dict to his monks, it is laid down 
that on all matters seriously affect- 
ing the welfare of the community, 
the abbot shall not act without con- 
sulting the whole body of monks even 
to the youngest novice. ... In the 
history of the Benedictine Order one 
finds a spirit of personal liberty ever 
blending with a most perfect system 
of authority. 

Father Cuthhert, 0. S. F. C. 



174 



APRIL SO 



Fiiday — 

nn HE advance of civilization is 
measured by its self-imposed 
restrictions. Already today, such 
restrictions for the sake of the social 
welfare are thickening on every 
hand. In countless matters the en- 
lightened conscience is Jiraiting its 
prerogatives^ in that spirit of joy 
Nvhich transforms sacrifice from mti- 
tilation to redemption. 

Vida D. Scudder: Socialism and 

Character. 



175 



MAY 1 



Saturday — 

BE thankful even when tired and 
faint 
For the rich bounties of constraint. 

William Wordsworth* 



LIBERTY requires new definitions. 

Thomas Carlyle. 



ire 



EASTER IV 

SIMPLICITY OF LIFE 

Tp VERY good gift and every per- 
^*~^ feet gift is from above. 

That we lay aside all superfluity of 

naughtiness, 
We beseech Thee to hear us, Good 

Lord, 



177 



MAY 2 



Sunday — 

T T EAR, sweetest Poverty. 

^ ^ All our love is due to thee. 



Little Poverty, tender thing, 
Humility's own sisterling, 
For eating and drinking and every- 
thing 

One bowl oontenteth thee. 

Poverty has no bed, 
Nor ever a roof over her head, 
Nor with linen fine is her table 
spread, ^ 

Content on the ground sits she. 

Light her footstep by the way. 
Never frowning, ever gay. 
To stranger land she fares away, 
Lacking all, and free. 

Jacopone da Todi: Tr. Anne Macdonell, 

Sons of Francis. 

178 



MAY 3 



Monday — 

pOVERTY, thou wisdom deep, 
^ Holding all possessions cheap, 

Thy will that thou fast bound dost 
keep 

Springs up in liberty. 

Poverty, great wisdom's height, 
Each day more clearly shows thy 

might, 
For here below thou walkst in sight 
Of the high life to be. 

Gracious is the maid and fair, 
Open-handed, debonair. 
Her livery is no base wear. 
Let's follow Poverty. 

Jacopone da Todi: Tr, Anne Macdonell, 

Sons of Francis. 



179 



MAY 4 



Tuesday — 

HY may not poor people give 



w- 



themselves up to discontent, to 
impatience and repining? Is it not 
because Christianity requires the 
same virtues in all states of life? 
But who sees not that these reasons 
equally condemn the gratifications of 
the rich, as the repinings of the poor? 
If our hopes in Christ are sufficient 
to make us rejoice in tribulation and 
be thankful to God in the hardships 
of poverty, surely the same hopes in 
Christ must l^e equally sufficient to 
make us forbear the luxury and soft- 
ness of greatness. 

William Law: Christian Perfection. 



180 



MAY 5 



Wednesday — 

T^HE proper use of the phenom- 
-*' enal world is a serious and deli- 
cate problem for the Christian. All 
true manifestations of the natural 
order are to be the means of his 
sacramental entry into the other 
world; and yet he knows by experi- 
ence that an overweight of the earth- 
ly phenomena will inevitably prove 
to be more than he can use sacra- 
mentally. . • • He must then, whilst 
using the phenomenal world, sit 
loosely to it. He must be sparing 
and watchful in his use of it, holding 
to a certain simplicity, which will 
raise the sacramental value of the 
smallest thing in it to its fullest pow- 
er. His use of the phenomenal world 
must be after the manner of St. 
Francis. 

L. S. Thornton: Conduct and the 

Supernatural. 

181 



MAY 6 ' 



Thursday — 

r^N Good Friday I find a felon 

^^ was saved, 

That all his life had lived with lying 

and with theft ; 
Yet, for he repented him and shrove 

him to Christ 
He was sooner saved than John the 

Baptist. . . . 
None are sooner saved, none surer in 

creed, 
Than plowmen, shepherds, and poor 

common people; 
Cobblers and laborers, land-tilling 

folk 
Pierce with a prayer the palace of 

heaven. 

Langland: The Vision of Piers the 

Plowman, 



182 



MAY 7 



Fnday — 

TN spite of the moral impartiality 
^ of the New Testament, its regular 
assumption is that God is on the side 
of the poor against the rich. . . . 
Our Lord seems to stand over against 
each human soul which comes to him 
to seek the position of the disciple, 
eliciting, claiming, welcoming and 
blessing the renunciation of wealth. 
. . • ''How hardly shall they that 
have riches enter into the kingdom of 
Heaven." • . • From the warning, 
we must remember, the correctest 
texts have removed the modification, 
''How hardly shall they that trust in 
riches.'' It is the possession of 
riches which remains the almost in- 
superable obstacle. 

Bishop Gore: Sermon to Church 
Congress, 1906. 



183 



MAY 8 



Saturday — 

rpHEY led my Lady Poverty to 
a place where she might sleep, 
for she was weary. And she lay 
down upon the bare ground. And 
when she asked for a Pillow, thej^ 
straightway brought her a Stone, 
and laid it under her head. So after 
she had slept a brief space in peace, 
she arose and asked the Brothers to 
show her their Cloister. And they, 
leading her to the summit of a hill, 
showed her the wide World, saying: 
This is our Cloister. 

The Lady Poverty {Sacrum Commer- 
cium) : Tr. Montgomery Carmichael. 



184 



EASTER V 

A WEEK OF INTERCESSION 



A SK and ye shall receive, that 
-^^^ your joy may be full. 



That we may receive power after 
that the Holy Ghost is come upon 
us, 

We beseech Thee to hear us, Good 
Lord. 



185 



MAY 9 



Sunday — 

T ET us draw the weapons of holy 
•*^^ prayer, for other help I see not. 
Letters of St, Catherine of Siena. 



186 



MAY 10 



Monday — 

r\ GOD our Father, stir up, we 
^-^ beseech Thee, the hearts of 
Thy people in wisdom, that the poor 
may bring forgiveness and the rich 
may bring power to the building of 
Thy Kingdom, for Jesus Christ's 
sake, the Founder of Thy Kingdom. 
Amen. 

Inspire us, we pray Thee, to faith- 
ful service in Thy family on earth, 
make us to know the infinite debt we 
owe our fellow-men, and let no pride 
of circumstance or narrowness of 
mind keep us from full and free 
communion with our brethren. 

H. S. Nash. 



187 



MAY 11 



Tuesday- — 

r^ MERCIFUL Lord, who hast 
^^ made of one Blood and re- 
deemed by one ransom, all nations 
of men, grant that I may not only 
seek my own things, but also the 
things of others; that this mind may 
be in all of us which was in the Lord 
Jesus, that we may love as brethren, 
be pitiful and courteous, and en- 
deavor heartily and vigorously to 
keep the unity of the spirit in the 
Bond of Peace; and the God of 
Grace, Mercy and Peace be with us 
all. Amen. 

Thomas a Kempis. 



188 



MAY 12 



Wednesday — 

/^RANT, O Lord Christ, the 
^-^ speedy coming of that day when 
Thy word of command will disarm 
the soldiers of all nations, as Thou 
in the Garden of Gethsemane didst 
disarm Peter. 

May Thy Love, O King and 
Lover of Souls, be powerful today, 
as in that dark hour of Thy be- 
trayal, to heal the wounds which our 
swords have made. Amen. 

That all nations may learn that 
political peace cannot be founded on 
industrial war, 
We beseech Thee to hear us, Good 

Lord. 



189 



MAY IS 



Thursday, Ascension Day — 

/^HRIST the Victor, Christ the 

^^ Saviour, Christ our Master 
dear and Lord, 

Hearken then to the petitions which 
we pour with one accord : 

When the smell of a sweet savor up 
to Thee the censers send, 

Let the prayers of Thy redeemed 
ones with the hymn angelic blend : 

Let the fragrant clouds that mount- 
ing breathe their incense far on 
high 

Be for us the hopeful symbol of As- 
cension to the sky ! 

B. F. Littledale. 



190 



MAY 14 



Friday — 

r\ HOLY Trinity, wherein Three 
^^ are One, 

Have mercy upon us. 
From the sins that divide us; from 
all class bitterness and hatred be- 
tween races or nations; from for- 
getfulness of Thee and indiffer- 
ence to our fellow-men, 
Good Lord, deliver us. 
From the fear of unemployment and 
the evils of overwork; from the 
. curse of child labor and the ill-paid 
toil of women. 

Good Lord, deliver us. 
Ey the tears Thou didst shed for 
Thy city. 

We l^pseech Thee to hear us. 
Good Lord. 



191 



MAY 15 



Saturday — 

np HEY that be snared and entan- 
^ gled in the extreme penury of 
things needful for the body can not 
set their minds upon Thee, O Lord, 
as they ought to do. Have pity upon 
them, therefore, O merciful Father, 
and relieve their misery that by Thy 
removing of their urgent necessity 
they may rise up to Thee in mind. 
Thou, O Lord, providest enough for 
all men with Thy most liberal and 
bountiful Hand ; but whereas Thy 
gifts are in respect of Thy goodness 
and free favor, made common to all 
men, we through our naughtiness, 
niggardliness and distrust, do make 
them private and peculiar. Correct 
Thou the thing which our iniquity 
hath put out of order ; let Thy good- 
ness supply that which our niggard- 
liness hath plucked away. 

Ancient Prayer: Translated 1578. 
192 



ASCENSIONTIDE 

THE HOPE OF THE KING 
DOM 



r> EING seen of them forty days, 
'^ and speaking of the things 

pertaining to the Kingdom of 

God. 



The end of all things is at hand. Be 
we therefore sober and watch unto 
prayer, 

We beseech Thee to hear us. 
Good Lord. 



193 



MAY 16 



Sunday — 

rpHERE is a spirit, which I feel, 
^ that delights to do no evil nor 
to revenge any wrong, but delights 
to endure all things, in hope to en- 
joy its own in the end. I found it 
alone, being forsaken. I have fel- 
lowship therein with them who lived 
in dens and desolate places in the 
earth, who through death obtained 
their resurrection and eternal holy 
life. 

James Naylor: A Quaker Saint 
Spirit o^ .Man:.'' 



194 



MAY 17 



Monday — 

l^AITING itself becomes a 
■ ^ work! and of all the promises 
of Scripture none speaks with fuller 
encouragement to such as seem to 
find no fruit of labour or no scope 
for it, if only they wait for the Lord 
Who will not leave the desolate, than 
this: In your patience ye shall win 
your souls. 

Biohop Westcott. 



195 



MAY 18 



Tuesday — 

T?17'E hear too little of the Chris- 
^ ^ tian virtue of Hope, the ex- 
pectation of the triumph of the right 
and true. . . . We need to be en- 
couraged by news of the progress of 
the Kingdom of God in . . . the 
rising spirit of brotherhood, the 
strength of social sympathy amongst 
men of earnest spirit. 

Malcolm Spencer: The Hope of the 
Redemption of Society. 

pvOES Christ find the faith that 
-*-^ shows itself in systematic prayer 
for the Coming of His Kingdom, 
now in our time, on our earth? If 
He does not, who can express the 
peril and the loss? Who can deny 
that we are ignoring one of the con- 
stant elements in normal human life? 

Bishop Gore: Prayer and the Lord's 

Prayer, 

196 



MAY 19 



Wednesday — 

rpHAT it may please Thee to 
^ unite the inhabitants of every 
city, state, and nation in the bonds 
of peace and concord, 

We beseech Thee to hear us, 
Good Lord. 
That there may be no decay, no lead- 
ing into captivity and no com- 
plaining in our streets. 

We beseech Thee to hear us, 
Good Lord. 
That Thy Kingdom may come on 
earth, 

We beseech Thee to hear us. 
Good Lord. 



197 



MAY 20 



Thursday — ■ 

SPLENDOR of the thoughts of 
God 
For the Hfe of men, 
Visions of the saints and seers, 

Burn for us again! 
From the night of ancient wrongs 

Wake our eyes to see 
Dawning in the skies the day 
God shall bring to be. 

W. Russell Bowie. 



198 



MAY 21 



Fnday — 

"l 1 rE need a restoration of the mil- 
^ ^ lenial hope, which the Catho- 
lic Church dropped out of eschatol- 
ogy. . . . Our chief interest in any 
millenium is the desire for a social 
order in which the worth and free- 
dom of every least human being will 
be honored and protected; in which 
the brotherhood of man will be ex- 
pressed in the common possession of 
the economic resources of society; 
and in which the spiritual good of 
humanity will be set high above the 
private profit interests of all mate- 
rialistic groups. We hope for such 
an order for humanity as we hope 
for heaven for ourselves. 

Walter Rauschenbusch : A Theology for 

the Social Gospel, 



199 



MAY 22 



Saturday — 

OUT wait — till out of pain and 
^ strife 

Our new and nobler peace is born; 
Wait till the nation's coming life 
Moves radiant through the gates of 
morn. 

Elisa Scudder. 



200 



WHITSUNTIDE 

THE GLORY OF THE 
CHURCH 



nPHEY were all with one accord 
^ in one place. 



That cloven tongues as of fire maj^ 
again rest upon the leaders of the 
Church of God, 

We beseech Thee to hear us, 
Good Lord. 



201 



MAY 23 



Sunday — 
N highly developed and spiritually 



I 



responsive groups, there is an ac- 
tual heightening of inward power 
and a gathered sense of truth 
through union. 

Not on one favored forehead fell 
Of old the fire-tongued miracle, 
But flamed o'er all the thronging 

host 
The baptism of the Holy Ghost; 
Heart answer heart; in one desire 
The blending lines of prayer aspire; 
Where in My Name meet two or 

three, 
Our Lord hath said, There I will be. 

John Whittier, quoted hy Rufus M, 

Jones: Social Law in the 

Spiritual World, 



202 



MAY 24 



Monday — 

TyiriTNESS, O Church, with 
^ ^ whom His promised Spirit 
Dwells through the ages, His ever- 
gracious Will. 
Friend of the friendless, outcast, 
downtrodden, 

O come. Son of Mary, 
Jesu, our Redeemer, 
O come, King triumphant, and reign 
on earth! 

Then rise. Lord, we pray Thee, and 

heal the nations' sickness: 
Rise, Thou, for whom amid the night 

we wait: 
Our eyes are dim with vigils, our 

hearts with hope are aching. 
O come. Son of Mary, 
Jesu, our Redeemer, 
O come, King triumphant, and reign 

on earth! 

Selwyn Image. 

203 



MAY 25 



Tuesday — 

A LL men are turning their eyes 
-^^ today anxiously to see whether 
in the midst of our social state, 
strained as it is by industrial per- 
plexities, wearied, overburdened, be- 
clouded, there be, present here on 
earth, a holy society in which God 
has set up his throne, whose mem- 
bers, trained and fashioned in a 
heavenly city, can bring to bear upon 
social difficulties the mind of those 
who know what corporate citizen- 
ship and the responsibilities of a 
brotherhood should mean. 

Henry Scott Holland. 



204 



MAY 26 



Wednesday — 
F Jesus stood today amid our 



I 



modern life, with that outlook 
on the condition of all humanity 
which observation and travel and the 
press would spread before him, and 
with the same heart of divine human- 
ity beating in him, he would create 
a new apostolate to meet the new 
needs in a new Harvest-time of his- 
tory. 

Walter Rauschenbusch : Christianity 
and the Social Crisis. 



205 



MAY 27 



Thursday — 

ly\ yTE need to enlarge our idea of 
^ ^ the meaning of the evangeli- 
zation of the soul in the perfect so- 
ciety. Since the soul, the man him- 
self, cannot be fully saved, or made 
vrhole and strong, as long as the 
soul's environment, its conditicms of 
life, are unfavorable, all social work, 
all educational work, all medical 
work, all industrial work, is work 
done for the soul and is a part of its 
salvation. 

T. E. Slater. 



206 



MAY 28 



Friday---' 

^T^HE Church is in the v/orld to 
■ change the world so that its 
whole extent may be filled with the 
glory of God, and may be worthy of 
the eternal destiny of the souls of 
men. Hers is a high and costly ven- 
ture. She has strongholds to storm, 
the entrenchments where the forces 
of private-mindedness and apathy 
and money worship are dug in. In 
the attempt she can exhaust to its 
depths the capacity which is in man 
for dauntless sacrifice. 

' E.Tcdhof. 



207 



MAY 29 



Saturday — 

"VrOTHING must ever make us 
^ forget that we belong to a 
Body that is in the world to recreate 
and make that world new. Recon- 
struction is the very task that we 
ought to be really at home with: no 
bitter taunts about our corporate in- 
effectiveness, no consciousness of 
failures on our own part, ought ever 
to cause us to be forgetful of the 
fact that the Church, the Body of 
Christ, has a divine mission towards 
the fashioning of the social order. 
That is why, somehow, we must lift 
up our voice at a moment when talk 
of reconstruction is rife, and minds 
are everywhere directing themselves 
to the various problems of future 
well-being that the war so tremend- 
ously raises. 

The ComMonw^alth. 
208 



TRINITY 

THE BLESSED TRINITY 

A ND they rest not day nor night, 
'^^ saying Holy, Holy, Holy. 

That Thou hast created all things, 
and for Thy pleasure they are and 
were created, 

Good Lord, we thank Thee. 
Hallowed be Thy name. 

We beseech Thee to hear us, 
Good Lord. 



209 



MAY SO 



Sunday — 

/^H, grace abounding, whereby I 
^-^ presumed to fix my look on the 
eternal light so long that I consumed 
my sight thereon! 

Within its depths I saw ingath- 
ered, bound by Love in one volume, 
the scattered leaves of all the uni- 
verse. ... 

O Light Eternal, who only in 
Thyself abidest, only Thyself dost 
understand, and to Thyself self -un- 
derstood, self-understanding, turnest 
love and smiling! 

Dante: Paradise. 



210 



MAY 31 



Monday — 

rpHAT social thought of God 
^ which we call the doctrine of 
the Trinity. 

Phillips Brooks, 



O URELY religion has forsworn it- 
^ self if. it has abandoned its claim 
to lift men out of loneliness. Yet a 
religion that cannot name its God is 
powerless to arrive at a brotherhood 
even of two. 

Henry Scott Holland, 



211 



JUNE 1 



Tuesday- — 

rpHE Vision of God is the call of 
^ the prophet: and the Vision of 
God given to us today in the Triune 
Name is our call, our message, our 
chastening. Let us all thank God, 
on this Festival of Revelation, that 
He has called us in the fulfilment of 
our prophet's office to unfold a grow- 
ing message, and not to rehearse a 
stereotyped traditon. 



Bishop Westcott: Christus 
Consummator. 



212 



JUNE 2 



Wednesday — 

T^ERE frend thou art, to wit, 
-*^ there is but One Godde. And 
thou art to wit that no good may fail 
in Godde; but because that a swete 
thing and a good thing is comforte 
of fellowship, therefore may not 
Godde be without goodnes of fellow- 
ship. Then behooveth it that there 
were many Persons in Godde the 
Heyest Gudeness. And because 
that Onehead is good and Many- 
head also, therefore it behooved that 
Onehead and Manyhead both were 
in Godde. And by this skill comes 
man to the knowing of Godde, that 
He is a Godde in Himself and thre 
in Persons. 

Richard Rolle: The Mirror of St 
Edmund, Fourteenth Century. 



213 



JUNE 3 



Thursday — 

T F truth is correspondence with ul- 
^ timate reahty, and personaHty is 
the only truth, then ultimate reality 
must be personal, and the universe 
becomes a system of personal rela- 
tionships. But this is what the 
Christian religion has always main- 
tained, imagining God not only as 
personal, but as a perfect unity of 
personalities^ and His only reflec- 
tion here on earth a society built 
round a personality at once human 
and divine. 

W. E. Orchard: The Outlook for 

Religion. 



214 



JUNE 4 



Friday — 

T3 ECONSTRUCTION is an at- 
^ ^ tempt to create a state of things 
in political and industrial as well as 
in personal life, in accordance with 
the vision which God has given us, 
the vision of the family life in the 
household of the One Father, where 
all unite in the one service which is 
perfect freedom. This is the su-. 
preme adventure of our time. 

The Bishop of Peterborough, 1917, 



T^HE ancient Cathohc charter of 

human J 
the Trinity. 



human freedom, — the doctrine of 



A, V. G. Allen, 



215 



JUNE 5 



Saturday — 

rpHE uncaused self -existent Eter- 
-*■ nal is indeed One, One God. 
But within the bright divine shrine 
and sanctuary of Godhead there is 
more-than-Oneness. Deity is no 
bright sohtude, but the Scene of 
mutual affection. Deity contains 
forever the mighty flow and move- 
ment of an infinite Life of respond- 
ing interacting Love. 

Bishop Monte, 



216 



TRINITY I 

DIVES AND LAZARUS 

IF a man say, I love God, and 
-'' hateth his brother, he is a liar. 

That our poTtion may be with Laz- 
arus and not with Dives, 

We beseech Thee to hear us, 
Good Lord. 



217 



JUNE 6 



Sunday — 

r\ ALMIGHTY GOD, pardon 
^^ the luxury of our age, and 
grant that those who Hve in stately 
dwellings and fare sumptuously 
every day may be brought to hunger 
and thirst after righteousness, that 
they may be filled with thine ever- 
lasting sweetness, and may not be 
shut out from the eternal home which 
thou hast provided for such as wait 
upon thee in holiness: through Jesus 
Christ Our Lord. 
Amen. 

Father Benson, S, S, J, E 



218 



JUNE 7 



Monday — 

rFlHE rich man in torment could 
have alleged how much good 
he did with his fortune, how many 
trades he encouraged by his purple 
and fine linen, and faring sumptu- 
ously every day, and how he con- 
formed to the ends and advantages 
of society by so spending his estate. 

William Law: Christian Perfection, 



219 



JUNE 8 



Tuesday — 

pEKHAPS there cannot be a bet- 
^ ter way of judging of what man- 
ner of spirit we are of, than to see 
whether the actions of our life are 
such as we may safely commend 
them to God in our prayers. 
• • • • 

O Lord, I, Thy sinful creature, 
who am born again to a lively hope 
of glory in Christ Jesus, beg of Thee 
to grant me a thousand times more 
riches than I need, that I may be 
able to gratify myself and family . . . 
Grant that ... I may still abound 
more and more in wealth, and that I 
may see and perceive all the best and 
surest ways of growing richer than 
any of my neighbors; this I humbly 
apd fervently beg in the name of 
Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. 

Amen. 
220 



JUNE 9 



Wednesday — 

X^T'OE be to the shepherds of Is- 
^ ^ rael that do feed themselves! 
should not the shepherds feed the 
flock? . . . The diseased have ye not 
strengthened, . . . neither have ye 
bound up that which was broken, 
neither have ye brought again that 
which was driven away . . . but with 
force and with cruelty have ye ruled 
them, 

Ezehtel, XXXIV. 



A ND her merchandise and her hire 
"^^^ shall be holiness to the Lord: it 
shall not be treasured nor laid up; 
for her merchandise shall be for them 
that dwell before the Lord, to eat 
sufficiently, and for durable clothing. 

Isaiah^ XXIII . 

221 



JUNE 10 



Thursday — 

T^IVES for his delicate life to the 

^^ devil went, 

And Lazarus the lean that longed 

for the crumbs, 
Yet since I saw him sit, as he a Lord 

were, 
In all manner of ease, in Abraham's 

lap; 
And if thou be a man of power. 

Piers, I counsel thee. 
To all that cry at thy gate for food 

for the love of God 
Give them of thy loaf, yea though 

thou have less to chew. 

Langland: The Vision of Piers the 

Plowman. 



222 



JUNE 11 



Fnday — 

XT is frequently useless talking to 
^ men about self-help v/hilst they 
are bound hand and foot by condi- 
tions of life which render self-help 
morally impossible and kill all hope. 
It is vain to demand of men that 
they lead self-respecting lives whilst 
landlords exact exorbitant rent for 
mere garrets and hovels: and it is 
mere mockery to talk of thrift to a 
man who is unable to obtain a life- 
supporting wage. 

Father Cuthberi, 0. S. F. C. 



228 



JUNE 12 



Saturday — 

\^7E are not told that the Master 
^ ^ made the smallest use of 
money for His ends. When He 
paid the Temple rate, He did it to 
avoid giving offense, and He de- 
fended the woman who divinely 
wasted it. . . . Ten times more 
grace and magnanimity v/ould be 
needed, wisely and lovingly to avoid 
making a fortune, than it takes to 
spend one for what are called good 
objects when it is made. 

George Macdonatd: 'Sir Gibbie. 



224 



TRINITY II 



MISSIONS 



T 



HIS is his conamandment, that 
we should believe on the name 
of his Son Jesus Christ, and love 
one another. 



That we may compel all peoples to 
come in to the Supper of the Lord, 
We beseech Thee to hear us, 
Good Lord. 



225 



JUNE 13 



Sunday — 

O AIL forth — Steer for the deep 

^ waters only . . . 

For we are bound where mariner has 

not yet dared to go, 
And we will risk the ship, ourselves 

and all . . . 
O daring joy, but safe! Are^fley 

not all the seas of God? 

Walt Whitman. 



^26 



JUNE 14 



Monday — 

ATI rE are very active in the devel- 
^ y opment of foreign mission 
work. Do we not, however, some- 
times overlook the fact that the 
truest way by which to spread Jesus 
Christ in other lands is by showing 
the influence which He has on us at 
home? 

H. Russell Wakefield, 



227 



JUNE 15 



Tuesday — 

r> EPORTS came from the great 
^ missionary conference at Edin- 
burgh that the most hindering ob- 
stacle to the spread of Christianity 
in the East is the knowledge that 
Eastern travellers and students have 
gained of the effect of Christianity 
upon the civilization of the West. 

F. /. Paradise: Christianity and 

Commerce, 



228 



JUNE 16 



Wednesday — 

OUT OF BOUNDS 

A LITTLE Boy of heavenly 
birth, 
But far from home today, 
Comes down to find His ball, the 
earth, 

That sin has east away. 
O comrades, let us one and all 
Join in to give Him back His ball! 

John B. Tabb. 



129 



JUNE 17 



Thursday — ■* 

T T is no wonder that the behaviour 
^ of men who are nominally Chris- 
tians, — Christians in professiou if 
not in practice, — ^has checked and 
still checks the progress of Christian- 
ity. The missionary comes preach- 
ing the gospel of peace and love, but 
when the natives see the rapacity 
ai;d injustice of men professing 
the religion which the missionary 
preaches, the preachings lose their 
power. 

Lord Bryce. 



230 



JUNE 18 



Fiiday — 

WE send the Gospel Eastward 
not only because we are cer- 
tain that the East needs Christ, but 
also because we are beginning to feel 
that we shall never get a full vision 
of Christ or a world view of Chris- 
tianity until the East has brought its 
contribution both to our thought and 
practice of the Christian faith. 

But while we must see to it that 
nothing allows foreign missionary 
enterprise to suffer at this time, 
there is another problem of even 
greater dimensions, namely, that of 
re-evangelizing Europe. This com- 
promised Christianity must go. 

W. E. Orchard: The Outlook for 

Religion. 



231 



JUNE 19 



Saturday — 

T^EAR not: for I am with thee: I 
•*^ will bring thy seed from the east, 
and gather thee from the west; I 
will say to the north, Give up; and 
to the south. Keep not back; bring 
my sons from far, and my daughters 
from the ends of the earth; even 
every one that is called by my name : 
for I have created him for my glory, 
I have formed him ; yea, I have made 
him. 

Isaiah, XLIII, 



282 



TRINITY III 



THE BODY OF CHRIST 

OE subject to one another; and be 
^^ clothed with humility. 

That Thou Who art the God of all 
grace wilt make us perfect, stab- 
lish, strengthen, settle us, 

We beseech Thee to hear us, 
Good Lord. 



233 



JUNE 20 



Sunday — 

/^r courtesy, as says St. Paul, 
^-^ Members pf^ .Christ we may 

be seen. 
As head and arm and leg, and all, 
Bound to the body close have been. 
Each Christian soul himself may call 
A living limb of his Lord, I ween. 
And see how neither hate nor gall 
'Twixt limb and limb may intervene; 
The head shows neither spite noi? 

spleen, ^ ^ ' -''^ ^^^'^'' '-''^^'^. 
Though arm ahtllinger "f e#elled be, 
So fare we all in love serene. 
As kings and queens by courtesy. 

The Pearl: Tr. Sophie Jewett, 



«/> 



JUNE 21 



Monday — 

ri npHE mission of the Church is 

>fiT*:i. ^ident: the Church's creden- 

sWals are clear: the need of the world 

Hds great. Nothing could be more 

tiweak and pitiable than for the 

M churches to confess that whole prov- 

i-inces of life lie beyond their interest. 

t^ Nothing could be more cruel and 

->*iGowardly than for the Churches to 

^iisay that they have no word to offer 

rBt)n the problems which make the peril 

ir^Midr the opportunity of our time. 

Nothing could be more calamitous 

and short-sighted than for the 

Churches to leave to outsiders, to 

unbelievers often, the discussion of 

current wrongs and the leadership 

in moral reform. 

Bishop Huntington, 



8235 



JUNE 2!2 



Tuesday — 

rr^HE only thing we judge by is 

^ what the Church is doing in the 

matter of the great social evils. We 

are fighting for Democracy, and all 

that it stands for. We believe in it 

passionately. We are coming back 

keen to do all we can for our God 

and country, to realize the dreams of 

a free and happy England in a free 

and happy world, the dreams which 

have sustained and made life worth 

while when things have been hardest. 

How are you at home going to 

meet us? 

The Challenge, 1917. 



236 



JUNE 23 



Wednesday — 

\^ 7E shall not get to the Christian 
^ ^ basis of industry until we come 
to recognize in industry also that 
there is no such thing as independ- 
ence, and that the greatest, and the 
richest, and the strongest, is great 
only as he is the servant of the weak 
and the poor. 

Lyman Abbott: Christianity and Social 

Problems. 



rpHERE will be in the Christian 
* society no governed and gov- 
erning classes, no outside body like 
the slaves of the ancient city, like 
the melancholy hands who pass from 
factory to sleeping-place along the 
streets of a modern city. In the 
Christian city, each will be bound to 
all, and all to each. 

Canon BarnetL 
237 



JUNE 24 



Thursday — ^^^ 

T^VEN the Apostles must have 
^^ found it hard to work together. 
We know they did. Look at Peters- 
and Paul. Yet, the Spirit of Unity ^'^ 
was stronger than all that opposed^- 
Him, and the One Body was in some ' 
measure realized. What was difficult^^^ 
in the childhood of the Body is still ^ 
more difficult in its manhoods ^f*i^. 
But pray. You enter then into an- 
other man's "ego." You see him in 
God. JiaHrp 

Forbes Robinson: Letters to His 

Friends, 



riojoxi^ 



238 



JUNE 25 



Friday — 

A GAIN and again, when the spirit 
'^^^ of worldHness and competition 
-has corrupted the Church at large, 
earnest men have gathered them- 
selves together and formed fresh 
^centres of unselfish life, centres of 
cooperation. . . . But, alas ! the 
measure in which we have realized 
-Mr^ Meal is. nothing compared with 
-€h^-*^boundlessness of oui^ failure 
hitherto, . . . The Church- has al- 
lowed the spirit of the world to -en- 
ter into her and she has altogether 
failed to realize her catholicity by 
making her power felt in politics and 
commence. Once again we are wak- 
ing to our duty. 

Bishop Gore: Prayer and the Lord'^ 

Prayer. 



m9 



JUNE 26 



Saturday — 

rpHEY will not fail to see that 
^ even in the seasons of her deep- 
est degradation the Church was still 
the regenerator of society, the up- 
holder of right principles against self- 
ish interest, the visible witness of 
the invisible God; they will thank- 
fully confess that, notwithstanding 
the pride and selfishness and dishonor 
of individual rulers, notwithstanding 
the imperfections and errors of spe- 
cial institutions and developments, 
yet in her continuous liistory the di- 
vine ' promise has been signally 
realized. 

Bishop Lightfoot 



240 



TRINITY IV 



THE CHURCH IN ACTION 



XT"' OR with the same measure that 
^ ye mete it shall be measured to 
you again. 



That we wait with earnest expecta- 
tion for the manifestation of the 
Sons of God, 

We beseech Thee to hear us, Good 
Lord. 



^41 



JUNE 27 



Sunday — 

r\ LORD GOD! 

^^ Thou that dwellest in the Holy 

City 
Where the flags of peace are never 
furled, 
Pity! Pity! 
Rouse the world! 

• • • • • • 

Wake Thy slothful people! They 

are sleeping 
Far without the City's shining wall. 
Wake them, for a. mist of death is 
creeping 
Over all! 
Send again a prophet who shall lead 

them 
In the way; a prophet who shall dare 
Scourge them out of sleep's dead 

peace and speed them 
On¥/ard to Thy Kingdom, — ^peace is 

tiiere. Florence Converse. 

242 



JUNE 28 



Monday — 

Church Ass'n for Advancement In- 
terests of Labor 

TN 1887 the Church Association 
^ for Advancement of the Interests 
of Labor (C. A. I. L.) organized in 
New York City. Its principle of ^^ 
brotherhood was apphed through 
fraternal relations with organized ) 
labor. It states that labor in its true 
sense is the standard of social worth. 
. . . This society was the first to 
demand that all manufacturing be^ 
taken out of tenement houses, to end 
sweating and child labor. The first ^ 
practical committee (outside of labor 
unions) of conciliation and mediation 
was established by the society in New 
York City, 1893 — an important fac- 
tor in preventing and settling strikes. 

248 



JUNE 29 



Tuesday — 

Church Socialist League 

T^NGLISH organization founded 
^ June 13th, 1906. The League 
requires its members to be convinced 
Socialists, in the historical and 
economic meaning of the word. It 
is thus a society within the Church 
composed exclusively of Socialists. 

American organization: President, 
Rt. Rev. Paul Jones, B.D.; Vice- 
Presidents, Rt. Rev. Benjamin 
Brewster, D.D., Rev. Eliot White. 
National Secretary, Rev. A. L. 
Byron Curtiss, Utica, N. Y. 

The League Purpose : To further 
social justice by prayer, study of so- 
cialism and working so far as pos- 
sible with both Churchmen and So- 
cialists for an increase of moral and 
social conscience as to social justice. 

244 



JUNE 30 



Wednesday — 

Social Service Dep't, Girls' Friendly 
Society of America 

T T has established lodges in dif- 
^ f erent parts of the country, where 
self-supporting girls can find a home 
at moderate prices, — thus supple- 
menting the low wages of the 
present, while constantly looking 
forward to the promotion of better 
conditions. 



245 



JULY 1 



Thursday — 

Whe Joint Commission on Social 
Service of the Episcopal Church 

/^UR purpose is that the Church 
^^ shall not be wanting, but shall 
faithfully respond to God's call and 
the leading of His Spirit in the new 
day that is before us; . . . that the 
Church's influence, corporately and 
diffused through its members, shall 
be a force dynamic on behalf of that 
democracy which is akin to genuine 
Catholicity, and always on the side 
of social justice against selfish greed 
and un-Christian individualism. 

Let me remind you that the Joint 
Commission on Social Service comes 
with the same authority which is be- 
hind the Board of Missions. 

Bishop Chauncey B, Brewster: Chair- 
man Joint Social Service 
Commission. 

246 



JULY 2 



Friday — 

Commission on the Church and So- 
cial Sej^vice Federal Council of 
Churches of Christ in America. 

PRINCIPLES adopted by the 
^ Federal Council: . . • Equal 
rights and complete justice for all 
men in all stations of life; . . • the 
abatement and prevention of poverty; 
. . . and for the protection of work- 
ers from the hardships of enforced 
unemployment; . . . for the right 
of employees and employers alike to 
organize, and for adequate means of 
conciliation and arbitration in indus- 
trial disputes; . . • the gradual and 
reasonable reduction of hours of labor 
to the lowest practicable point, and 
for that degree of leisure for all which 
is a condition of the highest human 
life ; for a living wage as a minimum 
in every industry, and for the highest 
wage that each industry can afford. 

247 



JULY S 



Saturday — 

Resolution Passed at the General 
Convention, 1916 

DE IT RESOLVED: That the 
^^ service of the community and 
the welfare of the workers, not pri- 
marily private profits, should be the 
aim of every industry and its justifi- 
cation; and that the Church should 
seek to keep this aim constantly be- 
fore the mind of the public ; and that 
Christians as individuals are under 
the obligation on the one hand con- 
scientiously to scrutinize the sources 
of their income, and on the other 
hand to give moral support and 
prayer to every just effort to secure 
fair conditions and regular employ- 
ment for wage earners, and the ex- 
tension of true democracy to indus- 
trial matters, 

248 



TRINITY V 

PATRIOTISM 

OE ye all of one mind: knowing 
*^ that ye are thereunto called, that 
ye should inherit a blessing. 

That the course of this world may 
be so peaceably ordered that Thy 
Church may joyfully serve Thee, 

We beseech Thee to hear us, Good 
Lord. 



249 



JULY 4 



Sunday — 

r\ BEAUTIFUL for patriot 
^-^ dream 

That sees beyond the years 
Thine alabaster cities gleam 

Undimmed by human tears! 
America ! America ! 

God shed his grace on thee 
And crown thy good with brother- 
hood 

From sea to shining sea! 

Katharine Lee Bates. 



250 



JULY 5 



Monday — 

pERCANDO Liberia !" Don't 
^^ you remember those words of 
Dante? They always seem to me 
our national motto. Again and 
again we believed that we had found 
Liberty, The Puritans thought so 
first,^ — ^with their vision of liberty of 
the state. The generation of the 
Civil War was convinced that they 
had fought the final battle. Every 
emigrant that comes to America 
thinks to find freedom here. They 
were all wrong. Liberty waits at 
the end of the journey; she is not a 
companion of the way. We Ameri- 
cans must climb our Purgatorial 
Mount before we can hope to find 
her, but she is waiting for us on the 
summit. Pilgrims of Liberty! It is 
the best name we can bear. 

Vida D. Scudder: A Listener in Babel. 
251 



JULY 6 



Tuesday — 

T IBERTY is not a donation; it 
^^ is an achievement. It dwells on 
the summit of a mountain, and not 
at its base. It is not easy, granted 
by a legislature, but must be at- 
tained by infinite toil and suffering. 

Charles A, Dinsmore, 



252 



JULY 7 



Wednesday — 

XTOT only the tragedies of our 
^^ times may teach us new lessons 
as to what international duty is, the 
deeds of our times include acts which 
give us new examples never known 
before of how a nation, facing a 
great crisis, can be guided mainly or 
solely by the idea of duty — that is, 
of its duty as a nation to other na- 
tions and to mankind. 

Josiah Royce> 



253 



JULY 8 



Thursday — 

rpHE best result that I expeef 
^ from America's entrance into 
the war is . . . that in the upbuild- 
ing of democracy and permanent 
peace throughout the world, America 
and Great Britain will take their 
part together, united at last by the 
knowledge that they stand for the 
same causes, by a common danger 
and a common ordeal, and, I will 
venture to add, by a common con- 
sciousness of sin. 

Gilbert Murray. 



254 



JULY 9 



Friday — 

/^UR Father in Heaven, make us 
^ri^, true lovers of our country. Help 
us to keep the promises which Amer- 
ica has made to the world, to be the 
home of freedom and brotherhood 
and justice for all. In our happiness 
and in our strength put us in mind 
of the pleasures and rights of others. 
Make us brave and truthful and fair. 
Keep our successes free from boast- 
ing arid conceit. And when we fail 
and are defeated^ give us a Jiigher 
courage and a stauncher strength. 
Help us to become noble ajid great- 
hearted citizens, an honor to our na- 
tion and a spring of hope to our 
neighbours; through Jesus Christ, 
our Lord, Amen. 

, ^ A Prayer for Patriotistm 



255 



JULY 10 



Saturday — 

T CONFESS that I dream of the 
^ day when an English statesman 
shall arise with a heart too large for 
England, having courage in the face 
of his countrymen to assert of some 
suggested policy: "This is good for 
your trade, it is necessary for your 
domination, but it will vex a people 
farther off: it will profit nothing to 
the general humanity; therefore away 
with it!'' . . . When a British Min- 
ister dares to speak so, and when a 
British public applauds him speak- 
ing, then shall the nation be so glori- 
ous that her praise, instead of ex- 
ploding from within from lotid civic 
mouths, shall come to her from with- 
out> as all worthy praise must; frojn 
the alliances she has fostered and 
from the populations she has saved. 

MT'% Browning: Poems before Congress, 
256- 



TRINITY VI 

THE CLASS STRUGGLE 

THIRST be reconciled to thy 
* brother, and then come and of- 
fer thy gift. 

That we may walk together in 
newness of life. 

We beseech Thee to hear us, Good 
Lord. 



257 



JULY 11 



Sunday — 

P^IRST love God. Extend your- 
^ selves out to God, and whomso- 
ever ye shall be able, draw on to 
God. There is an enemy; let him 
be drawn to God. Draw, draw on 
thine enemy; by drawing him on he 
shall cease to be thine enemy. 

Old Homily. 



258 



JULY 12 



Monday — 

T^OR all practical purposes Eng- 
^ land is divided, not into two 
nations only, as Disraeli said many 
years ago, but into dozens of separate 
and distinct classes, each warring to 
supplant the others. When the class- 
war is spoken of, many people shrug 
their shoulders and refuse to acknowl- 
edge its existence; but the war of 
classes is here; it is the most soul- 
destroying fact of modern life; and 
every reader (let him realize it) is 
inevitably one of the protagonists. 

George Lansbury: Your Part in 

Poverty. 



259 



JULY IS 



Tuesday — 

]\/rEN talk at times as if even to 
^ ^ speak of such a thing as class- 
division were to create it; as if it 
were to stir up to strife the lion and 
the lamb who would otherwise have 
lain down together. But it is the 
social conditions themselves and not 
the references to them that create the 
strife. The agitator may embitter 
the strife, but he does not create the 
strife, nor create the conditions; it 
is the conditions that create the 
agitator. Nay, more : so long as the 
conditions exist, is not the Christian 
himself bound to be in some sense 
an agitator, if by that we mean a 
man who refuses to remain silent 
because silence is least disturbing? 

r. C. Fry. 



260 



JULY 14 



Wednesday— 

nnHERE are in Nature indica- 
^ tions of a divine anger, — an 
anger born of love offended and out- 
raged. It is not an accidental mani- 
festation. ... It is incident to all 
wrong-doing, even as are pain and 
remorse, whereof it is a part. It 
enters not only into what man suf- 
fers by reason of his perversion, but 
also into the suffering of the victims 
of such perversion — the enslaved and 
the oppressed — ^moving them to 
righteous revolution. There is a re- 
sistance which is not of hatred or of 
revenge, but of a divine motion 
within us. 

Henry M. Alden: God in His World. 



261 



JULY 15 



Thursday — 

TF disputes become less frequent and 
^ less bitter in the future, they will 
be diminished not through exhorta- 
tions, or menaces, or denunciations, 
still less through attempts directly 
to prohibit them, but through the 
growth of a spirit of co-operation 
and of social service, and through 
the removal of the industrial condi- 
tions which at present foster indus- 
trial unrest. 

Christianity and Industrial Problems: 

The Report of the Archbishop's 

Fifth Committee of Inquiry, 



262 



JULY 16 



Friday — 

T IGHT flashing out of darkness 
^^ is revealing the work of the 
Holy Ghost making for human 
brotherhood. . . . There was a 
leaven of the Spirit in that fraternal- 
ism of the working-classes, and that 
cannot die. 

Bishop Benjamin Brewster, 



^T^HE spirit of liberty is abroad 
and it cannot be suppressed, 
but it can be taken into the service 
of religion — as it was in times by- 
gone — and from an enemy converted 
into a friend. And this is what the 
Church of the immediate future will 
do, and in doing, save humanity and 
herself. 

Father Cuthbert, 0. S. F. C. 



263 



JULY 17 



Saturday — 

nnHE crest and crowning of all 
^ good, 

Life's final star is brotherhood: 
For it will bring again to earth 
Her long-lost poesy and mirth, — 
• ••••• 

And till it comes we men are slaves, 
And travel downward to the dust of 

graves. 
Come clear the way, then, clear the 

way: 
Blind creeds and kings have had 

their day. 
Break the dead branches from the 

path: 
Om' hope is in the aftermath. 
Our hope is in heroic men, 
Star-led to build the world again. 
To this event the ages ran: 
Make way for Brotherhood — 

make way for Man! 

Edwin Marlcham: From the Man with 
the Hoe and Other Poems. 
264 



TRINITY VII 

SOCIAL SHAME 

1I7HAT fruit had ye then in 
^ ^ those things whereof ye are 
now ashamed? 

For the end of those things is 
death. 

From the wages of sin 

Good Lord deliver us. 



265 



JULY 18 



Sunday — 

T T is that denial of brotherhood — • 
J- the refusal in corporate relations, 
social, economic, political, national 
and international, to recognize 
Christ's authority which requires us 
to base life on love, — it is that which 
is distinctively the ''Sin of the 
World," our Christianized world. 
This is the sin which, being finished, 
has brought forth death. This is the 
sin which the War judges — for the 
war is only this sin in ripe and per- 
fect fruitage. 

H. J. Wotherspoon. 



266 



JULY 19 



Monday — 

ryiHERE must be a new world if 
^ there is to be any world at all. 
That human things in our Europe 
can ever return to the old sorry 
routine and proceed with any steadi- 
ness or continuance there: this small 
hope is not now a tenable one, The^e 
days of universal death must be days 
of universal new birth if the ruin is 
not to be total and final! It is a 
Time to make the dullest man con- 
sider; and ask hmiself, Whence he 
came? Whither he is bound? — A 
veritable ''New Era" to the foolish 
as well as to the wise. 

Thomas Carlyle: The Present Time, 

1860. 



267 



JULY 20 



Tuesday— 

T\7HAT has all this Might of 
^ ^ humanity accomplished, — what 
has it done? Take the three chief 
occupations and arts of men, one by 
one, and count their achievements. 
Begin with the first, the lord of 
them all, agriculture. Six thousand 
years have passed since we were set 
to till the ground from which we 
were taken. How much of it is 
tilled? How much of that wisely or 
well? 

John Buskin: The Mystery of Life. 



268 



JULY 21 



Wednesday — 

A FTER agriculture, the art of 
-^^^ kings, take the next head of 
human arts, — weaving, the art of 
queens. • . . Six thousand years of 
weaving, and have we learned to 
weave ? Might not every naked wall 
have been purple with tapestry, and 
every feeble breast fenced with 
sweet colours from the cold? • . . 
We set our streams to work for us, 
and choke the air with fire, to turn 
our spinning wheels— and — are we 
yet clothed? . ^ • Does not every 
winter's wind bear up to heaven its 
wasted souls, to witness against you 
hereafter by the voice of their Christ, 
''I was naked and ye clothed me 
not"? 

John Ruskin: The Mystery of Life. 



269 



JULY 22 



Thursday — 

rpAKE the art of building . . . 
^ In six thousand years of build- 
ing what have we done? . . . The 
ant and the moth have cells for each 
of their young, but our little ones lie 
in festering heaps, in homes that 
consume them like graves, and night 
by night, from the corners of our 
streets, r^ses up the cry of the home- 
less, "I was a stranger and ye took 
me not in." 

John Ruskin: The Mystery of Life, 



270 



JULY 23 



Friday— 

Q CATTERING wide or blown in 
^ ranks, 

Yellow and white and brown, 
Boats and boats from the fishing 

banks 
Come home to Gloucester town. 
• ••••• 

But thou, vast outbound ship of 

souls. 
What harbor town for thee? 
What shapes, when thy arriving 

tolls, 
Shall crowd the banks to see? 
Shall all the happy shipmates then 
Stand singing brotherly? 
Or shall a haggard ruthless few 
Warp her over and bring her to, 
While the manv broken souls of men 
Fester down in the slaver's pen. 
And nothing to say or do? 

WilUfim Vaughn Moody: Gloucester 

Moors. 

271 



JULY 24 



Saturday— 

IV/TAINTAIN holy and true jus- 
^ -*■ tice; let it not be ruined either 
for self-love, or for flatteries, or for 
any pleasing of men. And do not 
connive at your officials doing in- 
justice for money, and denying right 
to the poor: but be to the poor a 
father, a distributer of what God 
has given you. And seek to have the 
faults that are found in your king- 
doms punished and virtue exalted. 
For all this appertains to the divine 
justice to do. ... I tell you on be- 
half of Christ crucified, that you de- 
lay no longer to make this peace. 
May the flame of holy desire to fol- 
low this holy Cross and to be recon- 
ciled with your neighbor, increase in 
you. 

Letters of St. Catherine of Siena. 



272 



TRINITY VIII 

INDIVIDUAL HOLINESS 

XTOT every one that saith unto 
^ ^ me Lord, Lord, shall enter into 
the idngdom of heaven; but he that 
doeth the will of my Father which 
is in Heaven. 

That we, heirs of God, may 
through the Spirit mortify the deeds 
of the flesh. 

We beseech Thee to hear us, Gdod 
Lord. 



273 



JULY 25 



Sunday — 

A M I a glorious spring 

"^^ Of joys and riches to my King? 

Are men made Gods? And may 

they see 

So wonderful a thing 

As God in me? 

And is my soul a mirror that must 

shine 

Even like the sun and be far more 

divine? 

Thcma$ Traherne, 



274. 



JULY 26 



Monday — 

r^OR the sake of the unfairly 
-■" hindered or the oppressed, we 
need social reforms ; but for the sake 
of these reforms, we need most of all 
great characters. It is they and 
they alone who can influence the will 
of others and make reform a reality. 
And strength of personal character 
is wrought, not always or best in the 
stress of social activity, but chiefly in 
the wrestling of a man's own soul 
with the unseen God. 

Dean Churcho 



273 



JULY 27 



Tuesday — 

1\ 7E look out with ardor on the 
^ ^ great social war between jus- 
tice and injustice, good and evil, and 
we are eager to take our place within 
it; but let us remember that our 
power to prevail depends on the 
issue of that same combat in the 
arena of our inner self. 

The greatest social truth ever 
uttered was that spoken by the Son 
of Man as He passed into the great 
struggle by which He overcame the 
evil of the world: "For their sakes I 
sanctify Myself." — And still the only 
abiding force of social redemption is 
the force of single wills surrendered 
to the will of God. 

W, C, Gordon Lang, 



276 



JULY 28 



Wednesday — 

.\7[7E wrestle with the problem of 
^ ^ socialism and individualism, 
the problem of the many and the 
one; and we wonder which of the 
two shall ultimately overcome the 
other and remain the triumphant 
principle of human life. Let us be 
sure that to Christ, to God, there is 
no problem. When society shall be 
complete, it shall perfectly develop 
the freedom of the individual. When 
the individual shall be perfect, he 
will make in his free and original 
life his appointed contribution to 
society. 

Phillips Brooks. 



277 



JULY 29 



Thursday — 

r^ HRISTIAN Perfection is "such 
^^ as men in cloisters and religious 
retirements cannot add more, and at 
the same time, such as Christians in 
all states of thfe world must not be 
content with less." 

William Law: Christian Perfection* 



2T8 



JULY SO 



Friday — 

T ET every one therefore put his 
^^ hand to the work which falls to 
his share. Those who rule the state 
must use the laws and institutions of 
the country; masters and rich men 
must remember their duty; the poor 
man whose interests are at stake 
must make every lawful and proper 
effort; and since religion alone can 
destroy the evil at its root, all men 
must be persuaded that the primary 
thing needful is a return to Chris- 
tianity, in the absence of which all 
the plans and devices of the wisest 
will be of little avail. 

Pope Leo XIII: Encyclical, 



279 



JULY 31 



Saturday — 

npHE greatest contribution which 
^ any man can make to the social 
movement is the contribution of a 
regenerated personality, of a will 
which sets justice above policy and 
profit, and of an intellect emanci- 
pated from falsehood. 

The championship of social justice 
is almost the only way left open to a 
Christian nowadays to gain the 
crown of martyrdom. 

Walter Rauschenbusch : Christianity and 

the Social Crisis^ 



280 



TRINITY IX 

WAR TO END WAR 



rpHESE things . . . are written 

for our admonition, upon whom 

the ends of the world are come. 

From temptations above that we 
are able to bear, 

We beseech Thee to hear us, Good 
Lord. 



281 



AUGUST 1 



Sunday — 

OO all in vain will timorous ones 

^ essay 

To set the metes and bounds of Lib- 
erty. 

For Freedom is its own eternal law: 

It makes its own conditions, and in 
storm 

Or calm alike fulfils the unerring 
Will. 

Nor doubt it when in mad, dis- 
jointed times 

It shakes the torch of terror, and its 
cry 

Shrills o'er the quaking earth, and in 
the flame 

Of riot and war we see its awful form 

Rise by the scaffold, where the crim- 
son axe 

Rings down its grooves the knell of 
shuddering kings. 

John Hay. 
282 



AUGUST 2 ^ 



Monday— 

rpHE wars we wage 
^ Are noble, and our battles still 
are won 

By justice for us, ere we lift the 
gage. 

We have not sold our loftiest herit- 
age. 

The proud republic hath not stooped 
to cheat 

And scramble in the marketplace of 
war; 

Her forehead weareth yet its solemn 
star 

Who leads despised men with just- 
unshackled feet 

Up the large ways where death and 
glory meet. 

William Vaughn Moody: An Ode in 
Time o\f Hesitation, 



283 



AUGUST 3 



Tuesday — 

TT is clear that in 1914, no oihet 
^ course was open to any nation 
implicated than to join issue with 
the aggressors. But this was the re- 
sult, not of the righteousness of one 
nation as distinct from that of an- 
other, but of the universal lack of 
Christianity in the whole world. 
This war does not belong to the 
period of 1914 onward. It is the 
outcome of centuries of irreligion 
and hypocrisy, and it would be hard 
to apportion the guilt in this matter. 
To do so is not the business of Man, 
but of God. 

E. M, Venables. 



284 



AUGUST 4 



Wednesday — 

T LOVE no peace which is not 

^ fellowship 

And which includes not mercy: I 

would have 
Rather the raking of the guns across 
The world . . . 
What ! Your peace admits 
Of outside anguish while it keeps at 

home? 
I loathe to take its name upon my 

lips. 
'Tis nowise peace: 'tis treason stiflf 

with doom. ... 
O Lord of peace who art Lord of 

righteousness, 
Constrain the anguished worlds from 

sin and grief, 
Pierce them with conscience, purge 

them with redress. 
And give us peace that is no coun- 
terfeit ! 

Mrs. Browning: Casa Guidi Windows, 
285 



AUGUST 5 



Thursday — 

nn HE Coming of the Kingdom of 
^ God will not be by peaceful de- 
velopment only, but by conflict with 
the Kingdom of Evil. We should 
estimate the power of sin too lightly 
if we forecast a smooth road. Nor 
does the insistence of continuous de- 
velopment eliminate the possibility 
and value of catastrophe. Political 
and social revolutions may shake 
down the fortifications of the King- 
dom of Evil in a day. The Great 
War is a catastrophic stage in the 
coming of the Kingdom of God. 

Walter Rauschenbusch : A Theology for 

the Social Gospel, 



286 



AUGUST 6 



Friday, Feast of the Transfiguration 

/^N Tabor we say confidently: It 
^^ is good for us to be here; but 
God judged otherwise and brings us 
to Gethsemane. That good should 
come from the defeat of good . . . 
is an intolerable notion to our nar- 
rowness; and yet we have evidence 
that not only in spite of but through 
and in His defeat and humiliation 
He was glorified. 

George Tyrrell: Oil and Wine, 



287 



AUGUST 7 



Saturday — 

rpHE Transfiguration has shed 
^ its light upon all ages. ... A 
glimpse of the divine beauty has 
broken through the darkness and has 
cheered the humblest pilgrims. 

Greatly has this impression been 
deepened by the story of the boy in 
epilepsy, which follows so imme- 
diately upon the Tabor vision. . . . 
We have not here the picture of a 
lazy benevolence^ looking down from 
a serene region of enjoyment upon 
a world of misery and wishing it 
well. We have the history of a di^ 
vine descent into the misery to 
wrestle with it, ta bring back the 
victims of it into the home of peace^ 
from which they had wandered. 

f, JD. Maurice: The Gospel of the 

kingdom. 



288 



TRINITY X 

THE DAY OF OUR VISITA- 
TION 

A ND when he was come near, he 
^^ beheld the city and wept over it, 
saying: if thou hadst known, even 
thou, the things which belong unto 
thy peace. 

Because we know not the Day of 
our Visitation, 

Lord have mercy upon us. 



289 



AUGUST 8 



Sunday — 

rpHE persistence of war is a stag- 
* gering blow to the claims of 
Christianity. . . • 

O war, I hate you most of all be- 
cause you lay your hands upon the 
finest qualities in human life^ quali- 
ties that rightly used would make a 
heaven on earth, and you use them 
to make a hell on earth instead. 

Harry Emerson Fosdich: The Challenge 
of the Present Crisis. 



290 



AUGUST 9 



Monday — 

nnHE one great religious utter- 
^ ance of the war is the 'mani- 
festo' of the British Labor Party, 

Bishop Brent. 



nn HE war spells the ultimate 
^ doom, not of one militarism but 
of all militarisms. It is but the first 
step, and perhaps not the least fierce, 
toward the re-creation of Society 
from end to end. 

The Commonwealth. 



291 



AUGUST 10 



Tuesday— 

rip HE time is certainly drawing 
near for the workmen who are 
conscious of their own power and 
probity to draw together into action. 
They ought first in all Christian 
countries to abolish — not yet war, 
which must yet be made sometimes 
in just causes, but the armaments 
for it, of which the real root-cause 
is simply the gain of manufacturers 
of instruments of death • 

John Ru&hin. 



292 



AUGUST 11 



Wednesday — 

nn HE Christian peacemaker knows 
^ that there are multitudes of 
people who are trying to be true to 
the higher resistance in their in- 
dividual lives, but he knows also that 
the higher resistance will never have 
its perfect way with men until it 
becomes a social force, and is made 
massive in attitudes of the nation. 
He knows that the nation which 
adopts such a policy takes no light 
risk of lesser losses, but he believes 
such a nation will save its own soul, 
and release those forces which will 
begin to save the soul of the world. 

Congregationalist and Christian World, 



293 



AUGUST 12 



Thursday— 

OO shall men 

^ Gazing long back to this far 

looming hour 
Say: Then the time when men were 

truly men; 
Tho' wars grew less, their spirit met 

the test 
Of new conditions; conquering civic 

wrong; 
Guarding the country's honor as 

their own. 

• • • • • • 

Defying leagued fraud with single 

truth; 
Knights of the spirit ; warriors of the 

cause 
Of justice absolute 'twixt man and 

man. 

Richard Watson Gilder. 



294 



AUGUST IS 



Fnday — 

npHE end I know not, it is all in 
^ Thee, 

Or small or great I know not — 
haply what broad fields, what 
lands, 

Haply the swords I know may there 
indeed be turned to reaping tools, 

Haplj^ the lifeless cross I know, Eu- 
rope's dead cross, may bud and 
blossom there. 

Walt Whitman, 



295 



AUGUST 14 



Saturday — 

/^ OD end War! but when brute 

^^ War is ended, 

Yet there shall be many a noble 
soldier, 

Many a noble battle worth the win- 
ning, 

Many a hopeless battle worth the 
losing. 

Life is battle, 

Life is battle, even to the sunset. 

Soldiers of the Light shall strive 

forever, 
In the wards of pain, and ways of 

labour, 
In the stony deserts of the city, 
In the hives where greed has housed 

the helpless; 

Patient, valiant. 
Fighting with the powers of death 

and darkness. 
Helen Gray Cone: Soldiers of the Light. 

296 



TRINITY XI 



NATIONAL HUMILITY 



T^ VERY one that exalteth himself 
^^ shall be abased: and he that 
humbleth himself shall be exalted. 



From offering the prayer of the 
Pharisee, 

Good Lord, deliver us. 



297 



AUGUST 15 



Sunday — 

r\ Holy Trinity, One God, 

^^ Have mercy upon us. 

From national failure to serve Thee 
and all mankind ; and from selfish- 
ness of every sort in our national 
purposes, 

Good Lord, deliver us. 

From injustice within the nation; 
and from all things which may 

^ hurt and hinder the progress of 
democracy among us, 

Good Lord, deliver us. 

From all hate of our enemies. 
Good Lord, deliver us. 

From cowardice and the shrinking 
from hard and bitter service; and 
from failure to sacrifice for the 
holy ideals for which the nation is 
contending, 

Good Lord, deliver us. 



298 



AUGUST 16 



Monday — 

/^H, by the unf or gotten name of 

^^ eager boys, 

Who might have tasted girls' love 

and been stung 
With the old mystic joys and starry 

griefs. . . . 
But that the heart of youth is gener- 
ous — 
We charge You, ye who lead us, 
Breathe on their chivalry no hints 

of stain! 
Turn not their new world victories to 

gain! 
One least leaf plucked for chaffer 

from the boys 

Of their dear praise, 
One jot of their pure conquest put 

to hire 
The implacable repubUc will require. 

William Vaughn Moody: Ode in Time 

of Hesitation. 

299 



AUGUST 17 



Tuesday — 

A N accurate description of a field 
of battle, of a rout, of a siege, 
may be painful beyond what we can 
bear. But it is not amiss to remem- 
ber that there are other human suf- 
ferings which would not prove a 
pleasant picture. 

J, Llewelyn Davies. 



T^HE assumption that agonies of 

pain and blood shed in rivers are 

less evils than the soul spotted and 

bewildered by sin, is most Christian. 

Ecce Homo. 



300 



AUGUST 18 



Wednesday — 

npHE only cause for the triumph 
of which we can pray, is the 
cause of Christ, Truth and Peace. 
And there will be no peace for the 
world if we, forgetful of Our Lord 
upon His Cross, forgetful of His 
self-denial and His forgiveness of 
those who tortured Him, make a 
peace in the spirit of war. For 
example, it will be no peace if fight- 
ing on the battle-field only stops to 
give place to fighting in a trade war. 
The Light of the World alone can 
show the stricken peoples of today 
the light of peace. 

E. M. Venables. 



801 



AUGUST 19 



Thursday — 

T3REAK down, O Lord, the 
temples we have set up within 
ourselves to our own virtue, as Thou 
didst break with gentle touch the too 
great confidence of Thy devoted am- 
bassador, St. Peter. 

Help us to build in their stead a 
spiritual house whose altar is alight 
with purest offerings. 

Take from us the pride that looks 
on humble folk as common or un- 
clean, the weakness that dare not 
own Thee as a friend, the error that 
would make of Thee an earthly 
King. 

Give us the blessing of a generous 
heart alive with sympathy, of ardent 
courage to follow Thee without fail 
to the end, of quickness to see in 
Thee the Son of the Living God, 
whose Kingdom is not of this world. 

S02 



AUGUST 20 



N 



Friday — 

O one who deeply sees the evils 
that our fight for wealth brings 
on man, with an incidence more ter- 
rible than war because it is so con- 
tinuous and unrelieved, can call it 
Christian. War brutalizes men? So 
does our economic system. . • . War 
kills men? So does our economic 
system. • . . There is hardly a kind 
of agony on a modern battlefield that 
has not its counterpart somewhere in 
our economic struggle. 

Harry Emerson Fosdick: The Challenge 
of the Present Crisis. 



803 



AUGUwST £1 



Saturday — 

/^OD of Justice, save the people 
^^ From the war of race and creed, 
From the strife of class and faction 
Make our nation free indeed; 
Keep her faith in simple manhood 
Strong as when her life began, 
Till it finds its full fruition 
In the Brotherhood of Man! 

William P. MerrilL 



304 



TRINITY XII 



LIFE FROM WITHIN 

P^OR the letter killeth; but the 
^ spirit giveth life. 

That He Who made the deaf to 
hear and the dumb to speak may 
open our ears and lips to receive and 
repeat His messagfe, 

We beseech Thee to hear us. Good 
Lord. 



805 



AUGUST 22 



Sunday — 

r> IGHTEOUSNESS, Peace, 
^ ^ Joy" : the hum^n heart welcomes 
these three characteristics as mark- 
ing the society which answers the 
promise of creation. In these three, 
that memorable triad, the battle-cry 
of revolution, which in spite of every 
perversion and misuse has found a 
wide response in the soul of nations, 
receives its highest fulfilment. In 
"righteousness, peace, joy," we can 
recognize ''equality, liberty, frater- 
nity," interpreted, purified, ex- 
tended. We must make it clear in a 
shape that will strike the imagina- 
tion of the multitude that the notes 
of the Christian society are righteous- 
ness, peace, joy. 

Bifih^n Westcott: Social Aspects of 

Christianity. 

306 



AUGUST 23 



Monday — 

TN 1857 Charles Kingsley, in an- 
^ swer to some criticisms of Alton 
Locke repKed: ''We would teach the 
people to become Christians by 
teaching them gradually that true 
socialism, true liberty, true brother- 
hood and true equality (not the 
carnal dead level equality of the 
communist, but the spiritual equality 
of the Church idea, which gives 
every man an equal chance of de- 
veloping God's gifts and rewards 
every man according to his work, 
without respect of person) is only 
to be found in loyalty and obedi- 
ence to Chirst." 

Charles Kingsley: Alton Loclce, Prefa- 
tory Mevfioir, p. XXIX. 



307 



AUGUST 24 



Tuesday — 

T OVE one another. If you love 
-*-^ one another there can be no so- 
cial oppression, no social conflict. 
Love one another and the world will 
be reformed. It will become again 
the world of God; in which charity 
reigns, and with charity, harmony 
and order. 

S. Francis, 



LOVE God and do what thou wilt, 

Saint Augustine. 



808 



AUGUST 25 



Wednesday — 

T T is only because we are so divided 
^ one from another, only because we 
are so ignorant of each other's lives 
that we submit to these Unchristian 
conditions. When we know, we shall 
all unite in a supreme and practical 
effort to destroy the man-made con- 
ditions which produce the evils we 
have so genuinely but vaguely de- 
plored. Then we shall by united ef- 
forts build a new state based on the 
foundations, not of hatred, not of 
competition, but of brotherhood, co- 
operation, love. 

George Lansbury: Your Part in 

Poverty. 



809 



AUGUST 26 



Thursday — 

T SAW that each kind compassion 
^ that man hath on his Even-Chris- 
tians with charity, it is Christ in him. 

Revelations of Divine Love recorded by 

Julian Anchoress at Norwich, 

Tr. Gerenusf de Cressy, 



310 



AUGUST 27 



Friday — 

np O save Society, we must go back 
^ to the old fountain head of 
Christian sacrifice. Rank is nought, 
wealth nought; brotherhood is all. 
Let us make up our minds that great 
changes are coming, are inevitable, 
are just, and let us surrender the 
moth and the rust. . . • It is pos- 
sible that the work of reconstruction 
may carry us far beyond the horizon 
of the changes that we think we can 
now see. We may easily learn here- 
after to accept or even welcome 
changes that would seem revolution- 
ary today. 

T. C. Fry. 



311 



AUGUST 28 



Saturday — 

nn HE life and splendor of 
^ Felicity, 

Whose floods so overflowing be, 
The streams of Joy which round 
about his Throne 
Enrich and fill each Holy one, 
Are so abundant, that we can 
Spare all, even all to any Man! 
And have it all ourselves! 
Nay, have the more! We long to 
make them see 
The sweetness of Felicity. 

Thomas Traherne, 



812 



I 



TRINITY XIII 



LABOR: ITS CLAIMS 

S the law then against the prom- 
ises of God? God forbid. 



That in the love of our neighbor we 
may find the liberty whereby 
Christ hath made us free, 
We beseech Thee to hear us. 
Good Lord, 



318 



AUGUST 29 



Sunday — 

1^7HAT is wanted is a fresh in- 
^ ^ spiration, a fresh vision of the 
great truth which Christ gave His 
life to proclaim, that not only have 
we individual souls to be saved, but 
that the individual soul cannot be 
saved unless the collective soul be 
saved likewise. 

J. Keir Hardie, 



di4 



AUGUST SO 



Monday — 

'T^HE law of service is universal, 
* whether we will it to be so or 
not. As we ride along in a luxurious 
railway coach, we are profiting by 
the labor of all who helped to build 
the road or construct the coach. We 
should lift our hat to the working- 
man with his shovel, for without him 
we would be making our journey in 
the stage-coach of the past. 

Theodore F. Seward: The School of 

Life. 

OEE whence honor has its root. 
^^ The hands of cooks procure us 
to be honored, so that to them we 
ought to feel gratitude; and swine- 
herds supplying us with a rich table, 
and weavers and spinners and work- 
ers in metal, and confectioners and 
table furnishers. 

Saint Chrysostom. 
315 



AUGUST 31 



Tuesday — 

Tyt /"HAT is the fundamental evil 
^ ^ in our modern society which 
we should set out to abolish? 

There are two possible answers to 
that question, and I am sure that very 
many well-meaning persons would 
make the wrong one. They would 
answer Poverty, when they ought to 
answer Slavery. • . • Poverty is the 
symptom; slavery the disease. 

G. D. H. Cole. 



816 



SEPTEMBER 1 



Wednesday — 

rpHESE are the people bj^ whose 
^ labor the other inhabitants are 
in a great measure supported, and 
many of them in the luxuries of life. 
These are the people who have made 
no agreement to serve us, and who 
have not forfeited their liberty that 
we know of. These are the souls for 
whom Christ died, and for our con- 
duet towards them we must answer 
before Him who is no respecter of 
persons. They who know the only 
true God, and Jesus Christ whom he 
hath sent, and are thus acquainted 
with the merciful, benevolent, gospel 
spirit, will therein perceive that the 
indignation of God is kindled against 
oppression and cruelty, and in be- 
holding the great distress of so 
numerous a people v/ill find cause 
for mourning. 

Journal of Jchn JVoolman, 1757. 

317 



SEPTEMBER 2 



Thursday — 

npHESE are they who build thy 
^ houses, 
Weave thy raiment, win thy 
wheat, 
Smooth the rugged, fill the barren, 

Turn the bitter into sweet. 
All for thee this day — and ever. 
What reward for them is meet? 
Till the host comes marching on. 

On we march then, we the workers, 
and the rumor that ye hear 

Is the blended sound of battle and 
deliv'rance drawing near; 

For the hope of every creature is 

the banner that we bear. 

And the world is marching on. 

William Morris: The March of the 

Workers. 



818 



SEPTEMBER 3 



Friday — 

T^ HEY helped every one his 
^ neighbour; and every one said 
to his brother, Be of good courage. 
So the carpenter encouraged the 
goldsmith, and he that smootheth 
with the hammer him that smote the 
anvil, saying, It is ready for the 
sodering: and he fastened it with 
nails, that it should not be moved. 

Isaiah, XLI. 



rpHE nineteenth century made the 

* world into a neighborhood; the 

twentieth century will make it into 

a brotherhood. 

Joseph Cook. 



819 



SEPTEMBEB 4 



Saturday — 

jL^OR many years a Working Man 

To sanctify the worker's life, 
He shared the toil, the pain, the 

cares 
With which the worker's lot is rife. 

Then who would shun a life of toil? 
And who would grudge at homely 

fare ? 
Lord Jesus, give us grace to make 
Our daily work a daily prayer. 

Episcopal Female Tract Society, 



320 



TRINITY XIV 

LABOR: ITS IDEALS 

UT the fruit of the Spirit is love, 
joy, peace, long-suffering, gen- 
tleness, goodness, faith, meekness, 
temperance. 

That Labor and Capital may 
overcome the works of the flesh, 
which are hatred, variance, emula- 
tions, wrath, strife, seditions, mur- 
ders, and that many may rejoice in 
the fruit of the Spirit, against which 
there is no law. 

We beseech Thee to hear us. 
Good Lord. 

821 



SEPTEMBER 5 



Sunday — 

T> AISE the stone and thou shalt 

^^ find Me, 

Cleave the wood and I am there. 

Traditional Saying of Our Lord, 



822 



SEPTEMBER 6 



Monday — 

T ET us pray for the men and 

-*-^ women throughout the world 

whose Day of Hope this is. 
We beseech Thee to hear us. Good 

Lord. 
That under the leadership of the 

Carpenter, Labor may make the 

world a home of happy work and 

love. 

For a living wage as a minimum in 
every industry. 

For the reasonable reduction of 
hours of labor and for that degree 
of leisure for all, which is a con- 
dition of the highest human life. 

For the most equitable division of 
the products of labor and the con- 
trol of industry that can ultimately 
be devised. 

That Labor and the Church mav 
work together as one to build 
Jerusalem on earth. 
323 



SEPTEMBER 7 



Tjy-GRKINGMEN ! Brothers ! 

^ ^ When i ^Christ came and 
changed the Jace of the world, he 
spoke not of rights to the rich, who 
neMednotitOMadaieve them, nor to 
th^'po^ whowonld doubtless have 
abused them in imitation of the rich; 
He spoke not of utility nor of inter- 
est to a people whom interest and 
utility ' Iiad ' cotriipted ; he spoke of 
Duty, he spoke of Love, of Sacrifice 
atid 6f !Faith; anfltte said that they 
shotM be Ifirst; atnldng all who had 
cdfitHbuted iiibst 1>y their labor to 
the^^bofl 6f M'^^-^>^^^* 

lJps^$f^,^a^zmj({\Q^^^^^ of Man. 

-noo ^ilj iiiiB TOiif;! !(? 

t> *iA. «v> 



SEPTEMBER 8 



Wednesday — \u^\>v. \ v- \\T 

"VrO man has worked, or cah'/fo|k, 
'^ ^ except religiously ; not even Ihe 
poor day-labourer, the weaver of 
your eoat, the sewer of your shoes. 
All men, if they work not as in a 
Great Taskmaster's eye, will work 
wrong, work unhappily fofe; them- 
selves and you. i// t^n 

Industrial work, still underlboKtd- 
age to Mammon, the rational scml 
of it not yet awakened, is a tragic 
spectacle. . . . Labour is ey^u0.n 
imprisoned god, writhing undbti- 
consciously or consciously to lesoape 
out of Mammonism. r>Af\ 

Thomas Carlyle: Past and Presffhtl 

? riB 
'\m 
Hji 
325 ) 



SEPTEMBER 9 



Thursday — 

\yl7HY is labour unable to bring 
^ ^ about the consummation of 
what it wishes? The reason lies in 
the inferior status of labour with 
regard to management and control 
of industry. "The ill-will of Labour 
toward Capital and Management is 
not wholly a question of their re- 
spective share of earnings. The 
fundamental grievance of labour is 
that the actual conditions of in- 
dustry have given to Capital and 
Management control not only over 
the mechanism of production,, but 
also over Labour itself. . . . The 
labourer feels the forces against him 
are too strong. All he can do to 
jSght them is to resort to the strike, 
an expedient which brings the acutest 
suiFering to him and his family in its 
train. 

Council for Social Service in Canada, 

326 



SEPTEMBER 10 



Friday — 

rpHE Archbishop of York . . . 
^ strongly supported the plan for 
giving a share in management to the 
workers in any industry. We are 
sure that he is right. It is not 
reasonable that those who invest 
capital in the shape of money or 
plant should have the whole control, 
while those whose contribution takes 
the form of their own labor should 
have none. Share in the manage- 
ment should be for the workers a 
permanent right, and not an oc- 
casional concession. 

The Challenge, 



827 



SEPTEMBER 11 



Saturday — 

T F we in Britain are to escape from 
-'' the decay of civilization itself . . • 
we must ensure that what is pres- 
ently to be built up is a new social 
order, based ... in industry as well 
as in government on that equal free- 
dom, that general consciousness of 
consent, and that widest possible 
participation in power both economic 
and political, which is characteristic 
of democracy. 

Program of the British Labor Party, 



828 



TRINITY XV 

THE SUMMONS OF THE 
CROSS 

i^OD forbid that I should glory 
^-^ save in the cross of our Lord 
Jesus Christ. 

V. Peace be upon us, and mercy. 
R. And upon the Israel of God. 



829 



-"^Z^at^tX 



SEPTEMBER 12 



Sunday — 

TF it is not beneath the Cross of 

^ Jesus that nations will lay down 

their arms, it may be by revolution 

among the armies and rebellion 

among the workers. If we cannot 

secure the ending of the war by 

the blood of the Cross, other blood 

may flow which will not cleanse but 

only cry out for blood the more. 

But it may need a crucified Church 

to bring a crucified Christ before the 

eyes of the world. 

W. E. Orchard: The Outlook for 

Religion. 



880 



SEPTEMBER 13 



Monday — 

Y^ITHIN the area of what can 
^ ^ be required of the ordinary 
good man, Our Lord stands over 
against the souls of men already 
pious and God-fearing, — ^inviting to 
sacrifice, claiming sacrifice, meeting 
it with His supreme benediction, as 
if it were in that alone that the true 
relation of the soul to God is ex- 
hibited and realized. 

Bishop Gore: The New Theology, 



331 



SEPTEMBER 14 



Tuesday — 

rpHESE through the darkness of 
-*• death, the dominion of night 
Swept, and they woke in white 

places at morning-tide; 
They saw with their eyes and sang 

for joy of the sight, 
They saw with their eyes the eyes of 

the Crucified. 

Lionel Johnson: Te Marty rum Candi- 

datus Poems. 



382 



SEPTEMBER 15 



Wednesday — 

TTl T'HAT we need in our national 
^ ^ prayer is the acknowledg- 
ment of a Divine purpose greater 
than all national aims. If faith 
means trust in God that He will do 
what we desire, or even what we 
think to be right, such faith, as his- 
tory proves, will be again and again 
frustrated. But faith conceived as 
trust in God's plan, and a belief that 
even through humiliation and defeat 
such as we see in the Cross of Christ, 
God works out the triumphant 
achievement of His purpose, never 
fails and is never disappointed. 

The Challenge, 



S33 



SEPTEMBER 16 



Thursday — 

\/T ODERN knowledge has an- 
-^ ^ other issue to offer to think- 
ing men. It tells them that in order 
to be rich they need not take the 
bread from the mouths of others; 
but that the more rational outcome 
would be a society in which men, 
with the work of their own hands 
and by the aid of the machinery al- 
ready invented and to be invented, 
should themselves create all imagin- 
able riches. . . . They guarantee, at 
least, the happiness that can be found 
in the full and varied excerise of the 
different capacities of the human be- 
ing in work that need not be over- 
work, and in the consciousness that 
one is not endeavoring to base his own 
happiness upon the misery of others. 

Prince Kropotkin: Fields, Factories 

and Workshops. 



334 



SEPTEMBER 17 



Friday — 

A LL that God has given us be- 
'^^^ yond what is necessaiy, He has 
not, properly speaking, given us. 
He has but entrusted it to us, that 
it may by our means come into the 
hands of the poor. To retain it is 
to take possession of what belongs 
to others. 

St. Augustine. 



835 



SEPTEMBER 18 



Saturday — 

VTOW in this present time, man 
'*^^ is set between heaven and hell, 
and may turn himself toward which 
he will. For the more he hath of 
ownership, the more he hath of hell 
and misery; and the less of self-will 
the less of hell, and the nearer he is 
to the kingdom of heaven. And 
could a man while on earth be wholly 
quit of self-will and ownership, and 
stand up free and large in God's 
true light, and continue therein, he 
would be sure of the kingdom of 
heaven. 

Tauler: Theologia Germanica. 



836 



TRINITY XVI 



CHRISTIAN WOMANHOOD 



O 



F whom the whole family in 
heaven and earth is named. 



That Christian women, being 

rooted and grounded in love, may 

be filled with all the fullness of God, 

We beseech Thee to hear us, 

Good Lord. 



887 



SEPTEMBER 19 



Sunday — 

A ND Deborah, a prophetess, the 
^^^^ wife of Lapidoth, she judged 
Israel at that time. Aiid she dwelt 
under the palm-tree of Deborah be- 
tw^een Ramah and Bethel in Mount 
Ephraim: and the children of Israel 
came up to her for judgment. 

Judges, IV. 



/^ DORD send the guidance of the 
^^ Spirit to all women newly en- 
franchised, that they may exercise 
their power soberly and in wisdom, 
to the fulfilling of Thy most holy 
will, through Jesus Christ our Lord. 
Amen. 



338 



SEPTEMBER 20 



Monday — 

rpHEY tell us the chief charac- 
* teristic of women is the instinct 
of nurture. The whole trend of 
thought is leading us to apply this 
instinct to all suffering and neglected 
people. But by nothing so much as 
work, is our pity cleansed of senti- 
mentality. We learn to discriminate 
between the good and the bad in the 
present social order. We realize, as 
we never could from the narrower 
world of home, how the coming of 
justice depends on an interweaving 
of the social and the individual, of 
external structure and of character. 

Anna Rochester, 



»39 



SEPTEMBER 21 



Tuesday — 

O HE saw the gleam of white star- 
'^ light, she felt the rush of wings ; 
Through the little door, the humble 

door, came simple folk and kings. 
And some knelt down with gifts and 

praise, and some with tears and 

prayers — 
And suddenly the little Christ 

seemed less of hers than theirs. 

Scarce one white hour she knew her 

joy before the world came in 
And claimed Him at Her very hearty 

the heart that knew no sin. 
O Mary, not a mother born but 

knows your grief one day, 
Since soon or late the world comes 

in and takes a child away. 

Theodosia Garrison, 



840 



SEPTEMBER 22 



Wednesday — 

T F children are ever to receive their 

-* just due in society, if Jesus's 

example of placing a child in the 

midst is ever to be generally imitated, 

probably it will first be necessary to 

see to it that woman has the vote. 

Bernard Iddings Bell: Right and Wrong 

After the War. 



841 



SEPTEMBER 23 



Thursday — 

rpHROUGH long ages of un- 
^ tutored barbarism and but half- 
disciplined force, the nun's veil was 
the charter of woman's freedom; and 
in the cloisters were developed types 
of strong, independent womanhood, 
to which the present world might 
well look for examples of the perfect 
woman. 

Father Cuthbert, O. S. F. C. 



342 



■MaifliiiKiM^ 



SEPTEMBER 24 



Friday — 

A LADY abominates a sot, as a 
^^^^ creature that has only the 
shape of a man; but then she does 
not consider that, drunken as he is, 
perhaps he can be more content with 
the want of hquor than she can with 
the want of fine clothes; and if this 
be her case, she only differs from 
him as one intemperate man differs 
from another, 

William Law: Christian Perfection, 



343 



SEPTEMBER 25 



Saturday — 

T SAY to you I am the Mother; 

* and under the sword 

Which flamed each way to harry us 

forth from the Lord 
I saw Him young at the portal, 

weeping and staying the rod, 
And I, even I was His mother, and 

I yearned as the mother of God. 

William Vaughn Moody: I Am the 

Woman, Poems and Poetic 

Dramas. 



844 



TRINITY XVII 



UNITY 

PNDEAVORING to keep the 
■*^ unity of the Spirit in the bond 
of peace. 

That we be of one body as of one 
spirit, 

We beseech Thee to hear us, 
Good Lord. 



845 



■ 



SEPTEMBER 26 



Sunday — 

r\ HEART of mine, keep pa- 

^^ tience! looking forth, 

As from the Mount of Vision, I 

behold, 
Pure, just, and free, the Church of 

Christ on earth, — 
The martyr's dream, the golden age 

foretold! 
And found at last, the mystic Graal 

I see. 
Brimmed with his blessing, pass from 

lip to lip 
In sacred pledge of human fellow- 
ship ; 
And over all the songs of angels 

hear, — 
Songs of the love that casteth out all 

fear, — 
Songs of the Gospel of Humanity! 

J, G. Whittier. 



846 



SEPTEMBER 27 



Monday— 

npHE noblest word that I have 
ever heard from any co-opera- 
tor was this: "You cannot make this 
more democratic business work, with- 
out calling on more and more people 
to help you. If it should ever con- 
quer the hand-to-hand fight of com- 
petition, then everybody, whether 
they wanted to or not, would have 
to help everybody else." 

To work slowly and painfully 
toward this end is a possibility that 
need not be deferred. The sacrifices 
that it requires are the surrender of 
many things that are now our vexa- 
tion and our curse. 

John Graham Brooks: The Social Un- 
rest, pp 879, 380. Macmillan Co., 

1903. 



847 



SEPTEMBER 28 



Tuesday — 

T F the outward were the measure 
^ of the Church of Christ, we 
might well despair. But side by- 
side with us, when we fondly think, 
like Elijah or Elisha's servant, that 
we stand alone, are countless multi- 
tudes whom we know not, angels 
whom we have no power to discern, 
children of God whom we have not 
learnt to recognize. We are come 
to the kingdom of God, peopled 
with armies of angels and men work- 
ing for us and with us because they 
are working for Him. 

Bishop Westcott: Christus Consummator, 



348 



SEPTEMBER 29 



Wednesday — 

A LOVELY city in a lovely land, 
^^^ Whose citizens are lovely, 

and whose King 
Is Very Love; to Whom all angels 
sing; 
To whom all saints sing crowned, 
their sacred band 
Saluting Love with palm-branch in 
their hand. 
And thither thou, Beloved, and 

thither I 
May set our heart and set our face 
and go, 
Faint yet pursuing, home on tireless 
feet. 

Christina Rossetti. 



849 



SEPTEMBER SO 



Thursday — 

T ET our imaginations rest on 
^^ the burning love, the thrilling 
knowledge of those dimly spiritual 
beings, archangels and angels, on the 
keen joy of vision which has been 
obtained by the spirits of just men 
made perfect. And let us pray that 
with a like effectiveness, to be 
crowned at last with a like reward, 
God's Will may be done, in heaven 
as on earth. 

Bishop Gore: Prayer and the Lord's 

Prayer, p, 5^. 



350 



OCTOBER 1 



Friday — 

r> EHOLD O Lord how Thy faith- 
^^ fill Jerusalem rejoices in the 
triumph of the Cross and the power 
of the Saviour; grant therefore that 
those who love her may abide in her 
peace and those who depart from her 
may one day come back to her em- 
brace; that when all sorrows are 
taken away we may be refreshed with 
the joys of an eternal resurrection, 
and be made partakers of her peace, 
w^orld without end. Amen. 

Mozarabic Sacramentary. 



851 



OCTOBER 2 



Saturday- 
fry^^ Church has three special 
-*- possessions and treasures; the 
Bible, which proclaims man's free- 
dom; Baptism, his equality; the 
Lord's Supper, his brotherhood. 

Charles Kingsley: Alton Locke, Prefa- 
tory Memoir, 



rpHE Christian nation shall not 
^ be divorced from the Christian 
Church. The day is coming — inevi- 
tably coming, when we shall no 
longer speak of the forces of the 
Kingdom of God at work within the 
Republic, but of the forces of the 
Republic at work within the King- 
dom of ,God. 

Richard Wallace Hogue. 



359 



TRINITY XVIII 

OUR NEIGHBOR 

i;irAITING for the coming of 
^ ^ the Lord Jesus Christ. 

For grace to love our neighbor as 
ourself, 

We beseech Thee to hear us, 
Good Lord. 



858 



OCTOBER 3 



Sunday— 

T TELP me to help my brothers 

^^ bear 

Their loneliness, their poverty, 
Their sorrow and their blank de- 
spair- 
Some working vision grant to me. 

Grant each and all uncommon sense 
To lift our lives to happier height. 
Be Thou our present recompense, 
Be Thou our everlasting light. 

Robinson Smith. 



^54 



OCTOBER 4 



Monday — 

A MAN who does not do as he 
^^^ would be done by, a man who 
who does not love his neighbor as 
himself, is selfish. In other words, he 
is using some part of society for his 
own individual advantage, without 
regard to what the effect is upon 
Society itself. He makes himself a 
center around which he swings his fel- 
lows. 

Bishop Brent: The Inspiration of 

Responsibility, 



855 



OCTOBER 5 



Tuesday — 

TESUS, who didst touch the leper, 
^ Deliver us from antipathies; 

Who didst dwell among the Naza- 
renes 

Deliver us from incompatibility ; 
Who didst eat with some that washed 
not before meat, 

Deliver us from fastidiousness; 
Who didst not promise the right hand 

or the left. 
Deliver us from favoritism; 
Deliver us while it is called today, 
Thou who givest us today and promis- 
ed us not tomorrow. 

Christina Rossettl 



856 



OCTOBER 6 



Wednesday — 

T T E is the philanthropic man 
who does good even to his ene- 
mies. But every man is neighbour 
to every man, and not merely this 
man or that; for the good and the 
bad, the friend and the enemy, are 
alike men. 

You seem to me not to know what 
the greatness of philanthropy is, 
which is affection towards any one 
whatever in respect of his being a 
man, apart from physical persuasion. 
St. Clement of Alexandria. 



Bar 



a 



OCTOBER 7 



Thursday — ^ 

T F the rich and great can find out 
^ such • . . self -enjoyments of their 
riches as show that they love God 
with all their strength, and their 
neighbours as themselves; religion 
has no command against such enjoy- 
ments. 

William Law: Christian Perfection. 



lyr OST of the virtues that bind us 
to God, that make us holy — 
truthfulness, fidelity, charity, pa- 
tience^ meekness, justice — have ref^ 
erence to our neighbor. Our indi- 
vidual perfection, and ultimately our 
perfect happiness, is at the same time 
the perfection of our social relations. 
Rev. L, McKenna, S. J. 



-358 



OCTOBER 8 



Friday — 

r\F TRUE LOVE. Blessed is 
^^ that brother who would love his 
brother as much when he is ill and 
not able to assist him as he loves him 
when he is well and able to assist 
him. 

Writings of St, Francis: Tr. by Father 

Paschal Robinson, 



npHOU shalt communicate in all 
^ things with thy neighbour ; thou 
shalt not call things thine own; for 
if ye are partakers of things which 
are incorruptible, how much more of 
those things which are corruptible. 

Epistle of Barnabas: Ch, XIX, 



859: : 



OCTOBER 9 



Saturday — 

COME, though with purifying 
fire 
And desolating sword, 
Thou of all nations the desire, 
Earth waits thy cleansing word. 

Anoint our eyes with healing grace 
To see as ne'er before 
Our Father, in our brother's face, 
Our Master, in His poor. 

Eliza Scudder. 



860 



■I 



TRINITY XIX 

CHRISTIAN IDEALS OF 
PROPERTY 



T ET him that stole steal no more; 
^^ but rather let him labor, that he 

may have to give to him that 

needeth. 



That we be renewed in the spirt of 
our mind, 

We beseech Thee to hear us. 
Good Lord. 



8^61 



OCTOBER 10 



Sunday — 

nPHE vision of Christ that thou 
^ dost see 

Is my vision of greatest enemy. 
He scorned earth's parents, scorned 

earth's God, 
And mocked the one and the other 

rod. 
His seventy disciples sent 
Against religion and government. 
He left his father's trade to roam, 
A wandering vagrant, without home. 
This was the race that Jesus ran. 
Humble to God, haughty to man, 
Cursing the rulers before the people, 
Even to the temple's highest steeple. 
Throughout the land he took his 

course. 
Tracing diseases to their source. 
Where'er his chariot took its way 
The gates of death let in the day. 

William Blake. 
362' 



OCTOBER 11 



Monday — 

Y^HAT has religion to say to the 
^ ^ institution of Property? The 
(early) Christian Church became a 
corporation for mutual support, re- 
fusing the idler who would not work, 
but for the rest accepting the maxim 
tbat they ''must provide one another 
with support, with all joy. To the 
workman, work; to him who can not 
work, mercy (or alms)." There is 
no doubt that this profound sense of 
the communal claim on private prop- 
erty, and this practically effective 
sense of brotherhood produced an 
economic condition in the Christian 
community which was one main cause 
of its progress. 

Property, Its Duties and Rights. 



363 



OCTOBER 12 



Tuesday — 

VT'OUR very existence is not your 
-*- own: how is it, then, that your 
riches are? They belong rather to 
those for whom God has given them 
into your keeping. Riches are a 
common property, like the light of 
the sun, the air, or the productions 
of the earth. Riches are to society 
what food is to the body : should any 
one of her members wish to absorb 
the nutriment which is intended for 
the support of all, the body would 
perish entirely: it is held together 
only by the requisite distribution of 
nourishment to diverse parts. . . • 
To give and to receive is the basis 
and theory of all human society. 

The Body of the Fathers: Tenth 

Homily. 



364 



OCTOBER IS 



Wednesday — 

rpHE other part of "^ustice is 
^ Equity, that making oneself 
equal with others which Cicero calls 
''equability/' For God, who both 
produces and breathes into men, has 
willed that all should be equal, that 
is, equally matched (pares). None 
is with Him a slave, none a master. 
. • . Wherefore neither the Romans 
nor the Greeks could possess justice, 
because they have had men of many 
unequal grades, from poor to rich, 
from humble to powerful. For 
where all are not equally matched 
there is not equity; and inequality 
itself excludes justice. 

Summary of Lactantius: Vernon Bart- 
let. Property, Its Duties and 

Rights, 



365 



OCTOBER 14 



Thursday — 

/^UR inequalities materialize our 
^-^ upper class, vulgarize our mid- 
dle class, brutalize our lower class. 

Matthew Arnold, 

npHE strong centres of modern 
^ English property must swiftly 
be broken up, if even the idea of 
property is to remain among Eng- 
lishmen. 

G, K. Chesterton. 



866 



OCTOBER 15 



Friday — 

A LIFE lived in the spirit that 
^'^^ aims at creating rather than 
possessing has a certain fundamental 
happiness of which it can not be 
wholly robbed by adverse circum- 
stances. This is the way of life re- 
commended in the Gospels and by 
all the great teachers of the world. 
Those who have found it are free from 
the tyranny of fear, since what they 
value most in their lives is not at the 
mercy of outside power. . • . But 
the teaching of Christ has been nom- 
inally accepted by the world for many 
centuries, and vet those who follow it 
are still persecuted as they were be- 
fore the time of Constantine. 

Bertand Russell: Proposed Roads to 

Freedom. 



867 



OCTOBER 16 



Saturday — 

/^ NLY the meek inherit the earth, 
^^ and so long as we guard the 
goods of earth for that common in- 
heritance, we cannot be too acquisi- 
tive. Let us enhance our sense of 
the sacredness of property till it shall 
become impossible for the least or 
weakest to find himself a homeless 
wanderer in this heritage which is 
his own. 

Vida D. Scudder: Socialism and 
Character, p. 298. 



l^HATEVER we treasure for 
^ ^ ourselves separates us from 
others; our possessions are our limi- 
tations. >» 

Rabindranath Tagore. 



86g 



G 



TRINITY XX 

A WEEK OF THANKS- 
GIVING 

lYING thanks always in all 
things unto God the Father, 
n the name of our Lord Jesus 
Christ. 



For our power to make melodj?^ in 
our hearts to Thee, Good Lord, we 
thank Thee. 



869 



IM 



OCTOBER 17 



Sunday — 

I ORD GOD ALMIGHTY, we 

^-^ give thanks to Thee for all 
things, because Thou hast sheltered 
us, Thou hast redeemed us unto 
Thyself, Thou hast brought us to 
this hour. Remember, O Lover of 
men, the sowings and the increase of 
the land; may they grow and multi- 
ply. Remember, O Lord, the safety 
of Thy Holy Church. Remember, 
O Lord Jesus Christ, the cap- 
tivities of Thy people. Heal them 
that are sick, give rest unto them 
that are fallen asleep. For Thou art 
the resurrection of us all, and to 
Thee, with Thy Father and the Holy 
Ghost the Life-Giver, we send up 
thanksgiving unto highest Heaven, 
world without end. Amen. 

Liturgy of the Coptic Jacobites. 



370 



OCTOBER 18 



Monday — 

r^ LORY to Thee, O Lord, Who 
^^ by thy operation hast manifested 
the everlasting harmony of the 
world. Thou hast opened the eyes 
of om' hearts that they may know 
Thee, the Highest among the high- 
est, the Holy One among the holy 
ones. Thou exaltest the humble and 
puttest down the mighty. Thou 
whose regard penetrates the abyss 
and scans the work of men: Thou 
who hast multiplied the nations upon 
earth, and chosen from among them 
those who love Thee through Jesus 
Christ: we beseech Thee, O Master, 
be our help and succor. Yea, O 
Lord, make thy face to shine upon 
us for our well-being and our peace, 
and give concord to all the dwellers 
upon earth. 

From the Epistle of St, Clement of 
Rome, second or third century, 

371 



OCTOBER 19 



Tuesday — 

TVT EN in that time a-coming shall 
^ ^ work and have no fear 
For tomorrow's lack of earning, and 

the hungry wolf anear! 
I tell you this for a wonder that no 

man then shall be glad 
Of his fellow's fall and mishap, to 

snatch at the work he had ! 
For that which the worker winneth 

shall then be his indeed 
Nor shall half be reaped for noth- 
ing by him that sowed no seed, 
O strange, new, wonderful justice! 

But for whom shall we gather the 
gain? 
For ourselves and for each of our 

fellows, and no hand shall labor 

in vain! 

William Morris, 



872 



OCTOBER 20 



Wednesday — 

IV/f Y neighbor's grief is dark to 
^ -*■ me. 

I gaze and dread, without; 
And marvel how he lives to bear 

The blackness and the doubt. 

And yet, by all lost ways of grief 
That I have had to plod, 

I know how small a rift lets through 
A little gleam of God. 

Josephine Peabody Marks, 



878 



OCTOBER 21 



Thursday — 

r^ OME, dear Heart! 

^^ The fields are white to har- 
vest: come and see 

As in a glass the timeless mystery 

Of love, whereby we feed 

On God, our bread indeed. 

Torn by the sickles, see Him share 
the smart 

Of travailing Creation: maimed, de- 
spised. 

Yet by His lovers the more dearly 
prized 

Because for us He lays his beauty 
down — 

Last toll paid by Perfection for our 
loss! 

Trace on these fields his Everlasting 
Cross, 

And o'er the stricken sheaves the 
Immortal Victim's Crown. 

Evelyn Underhilt. 
374 



OCTOBER 22 



Friday — 

T^ROM far horizons came a Voice 

^ that said, 

"Liol from the hand of Death take 

thou thy daily bread." 
Then I, awakening, saw 
A splendour burning in the heart of 

things : 
The flame of living love which lights 

the law 
Of mystic death that works the mys- 
tic birth. 
I knew the patient passion of the 

earth, 
Maternal, everlasting, whence there 

springs 
The Bread of angels and the life of 

man. 

Evelyn Underhill, 



S75 



OCTOBER 23 



Saturday — 

VTOW in each blade 

•^^ I, blind no longer, see 

The Glory of God's growth: know it 
to be 

An earnest of the Immemorial Plan. 

Yea, I have understood 

How all things are one great obla- 
tion made: 

He on our altars, we on the world's 
rood. 

Even as this corn, 

Earth born, 

We are snatched from the sod; 

Reaped, ground to grists 

Crushed and tormented in the Mills 
of God, 

And offered at Life's hands, a living 
Eucharist. 

Evelyn UnderhilL 



876 



TRINITY XXI 

CHRISTIAN STEADFAST- 

NESS 

OTAND therefore having your 
^^ feet shod with the preparation 
of the gospel of peace. 

That we watch with all perseverance 
We beseech Thee to hear us, 
Good Lord. 



877 



OCTOBER 24 



Sunday — 

\ ^ rHAT is needed today, men and 
^ ^ brethren, is men who will live 
for their fellows, and by that I mean 
who will give every inch of their time 
and every particle of their being for 
the welfare of mankind, the common 
weal. 

Bishop Brent: The Inspiration of 
Responsibility. Longmans. 



878 



OCTOBER 25 



Monday — • 

T^O we ''desire a better country, 
^^ that is an heavenly?" Why, 
then the New Testament tells us 
that we must be full of energy and 
activity, true members of the Church 
Militant; for it is the violent only, 
or those who exercise continual force, 
that gain final admission to the king- 
dom of Heaven, the Church Tri- 
umphant. 

Charles Fox. 



379 



OCTOBER 26 



Tuesday — 

npHE true Christian is the true 
^ citizen, lofty of purpose, reso- 
lute in endeavor, ready for a hero's 
deeds, but never looking down on 
his task because it is cast in the day 
of small things ; scornful of baseness, 
awake to his own duties as well as 
to his rights, following the higher 
law with reverence, and in this world 
doing all that in him lies, so that 
when death comes he may feel that 
mankind is in some degree better be- 
cause he has lived. 

Theodore Roosevelt: The Strenuous 
Life, By permission of The Cen- 
tury Co. 



380 



OCTOBER 27 



Wednesday — 

OOME people have imagined that 
^^ they only renounce the world as 
it ought to be renounced, who retire 
to a cloister or a monastery; but this 
is as unreasonable as to make it nec- 
essary to lay aside all use of clothes 
to avoid the vanity of dress. They 
only renounce the world as they 
ought . . . who comply with their 
share in the offices of human life 
without complying with the spirit 
that reigneth in the world. 

William Law: Christian Perfection, 



881 



OCTOBER 28 



Thursday — 

IX 7H0 goeth in the way which 
^ ^ Christ hath gone 
Is much more sure to meet with Him 
than one * 

That travelleth by-ways. 
Perhaps my God, though He be far 

before, 
May turn, and take me by the hand, 
and more 

May strengthen my decays. 

George Herbert, 



882 



OCTOBER 29 



Friday — 

V. Blessed are they that hunger and 

thirst after justice. 
R. For they shall be filled. 

r\ CREATIVE Word who while 
^^ on earth didst not disdain to be 
known as the Carpenter, grant sight 
to those blinded by luxury and de- 
liverance to those bound by want, 
that the rich may joyfully follow the 
simplicity of Thy most holy life and 
the poor may obtain the inheritance 
of the meek, and that the hearts of all 
may be set with one accord to discover 
the Way of Salvation; through Thy 
mercy who for our sakes didst become 
poor that we through Thy poverty 
might become rich. Amen. 

S. C. H. C^ Manual. 

383 



OCTOBER 30 



Saturday— 

JPORWARDT' cried one, "for us 
'^ no beaten track, 
No city continuing, no turning back: 
The past we love not for its being 

past. 
But for its hope and ardour forward 

cast/' 

Henry Newbolt. 



T ET US each in God's name do our 
^^ part, and then the time is not 
far distant when we shall see our 
land not merely the richest, but th^ 
brightest, the freest, and consequent- 
ly the most Christian in the world. 
So long as there is one untended 
sick-bed, one unrelieved poor person, 
one unavenged injustice, one pre- 
ventable misery permitted, there is 
work for us to do. 

H. Russell Wakefield. 

384 



TRINITY XXII 

ALL SAINTS 

V. Blessed are the pure in heart 
R. For they shall see God. 



F 



OR confidence that He who hath 
begun a good work in us will 
perform it unto the Day of Jesus 
Christ, 
Good Lord we thank Thee. 



385 



OCTOBER 31 



Sunday — 

TRACES, faces, faces of the stream- 
^ ing, marching surge, 
Streaming on the weary road, toward 

the awful steep, 
Whence your glow and glory as ye 

set to that sharp verge, 
Faces lit as sunlit stars, shining as 

ye sweep? 

Lo, the Light, they answer, O the 
pure, the pulsing Light, 

Beating like a heart of life, like a 
heart of love ! 

• • • • • • 

O my soul, how art thou to that liv- 
ing Splendor blind. 

Sick with thy desire to see even as 
these men see! 

Yet to look upon them is to know 
that God hath shined: 

Faces lit as sunlit stars, be all my 

light to me! n^i,^ Gray Cone. 

386 



NOVEMBER 1 



Monday — 

T>RING me to see, Lord, bring 
me yet to see 

Those nations of Thy glory and Thy 
grace 

Who splendid in Thy splendour 
worship Thee. 

• ••••• 

Home-comers out of every change 
and chance, 

Hermits restored to social neighbor- 
hoods. 

Aspects which reproduce One coun- 
tenance. 

Life-losers with their losses all made 
good. 

All blessed hungry and athirst suf- 
ficed. 

All who bore crosses round the Holy 
Rood, 

Friends, brethren, sisters of Lord 
Jesus Christ. 

Christina Rossettl 
387 



NOVEMBER 2 



Tuesday — 

A S clouds sweep over the moon, 
'^^^ The hosts of the dead pass by: 
They veil the terrible face, 

The inviolate face of the sky. 
They fill the winds of the world 
With the sound of their gentle 
breath ; 
They temper the glitter of life 
By the merciful shadow of death, 
• • • • • • 

Their care is all for us; they whisper 

low 
Of the great heritage 
To which we go. ... 

We all unknowing, wage 

Our endless fight, 

By ghostly banners led. 

By arms invisible helped in the strife* 

Without the friendship of the happy 

dead 
How should we bear our life? 

Evelyn Underhill: Immanence. 
388 



NOVEMBER 3 



Wednesday — 

nnHE neglect of prayer for the 
^ dead and a general lack of in- 
terest in the vast buried body of hu- 
manity, whereof we who now live are 
only the newly-forming but as yet 
unformed matter, is characteristic of 
the ultra-individualism of modern 
religion. . . . The living are but 
strangers and pilgrims on this visible 
earth, seeking an invisible City whose 
builder and maker is God, whose 
foundations are upon the hills of 
Eternity. In this view, Humanity 
is one great Tree of Life which year 
by year sends forth its green, tender 
shoots to be hardened into formed 
wood as autumn and winter succeed 
to summer and spring. 

George Tyrrell: Oil and Wine. 



389 



NOVEMBER 4 



Thursday — 

T ET us have no scruples in throw- 
^^ ing ourselves into the work to 
which the Church of the twentieth 
century is manifestly called by God, 
— the progress towards a Civitas Dei 
here on earth. . . . We need not be 
afraid of losing sight of the next 
world by living for our own and the 
next generation. The land that is 
very far off, and those who are gone 
thither before us, will never seem 
nearer to us than when Christian 
charity in its most concrete practical 
form has become the ruling principle 
of our lives. ''We know that we 
have passed from death unto life," 
says St. John, ''because we love the 
brethren/' 

W. jB. Inge. 



890 



NOVEMBER 5 



Fnday — 

XTO ideal of a perfect state, no 
^^ dream of a golden age or para- 
dise restored which has ever visited 
the imagination of genius or risen 
before the rapt gaze of inspired seer 
or prophet, can surpass that future 
of universal light and love which 
Christianity encourages us to expect 
as the destiny of our race . . . when 
we shall all come in the unity of the 
faith and of the knowledge of the 
Son of God unto a perfect man, unto 
the measure of the stature of the 
fullness of Christ. 

John Caird. 



391 



^«M^ 



NOVEMBER 6 



Saturday — 

/^ GOD, whose joyous love is as 
^-^ a boundless ocean, let the 
stream that makes glad the City of 
God flow into the turbid, sluggish 
waters of our lives; let its clear, 
strong current course through our 
weak wills, that we may meet all dif- 
ficulties with overflowing life and 
energy; through Him Who is our 
life, even Jesus Christ our Lord* 
Amen. 

Prayers from the City of God. 



392 



TRINITY XXIII 



UNWORLDLINESS 



F 



OR our conversation is in 
Heaven, 



From minding earthly things, 
Good Lord, deliver us. 



393 



NOVEMBER 7 



Sunday — 

A ND Patience told him of Pov- 
"^^^ erty and Riches and of the nine 
blessings of Poverty: ''It is," said 
Patience, ''a hateful blessing, it 
judges none (for it is too poor to be 
made a judge), it is wealth without 
calumny, it is the gift of God; it is 
mother of health; it is a road of 
peace; it is a well of wisdom; it is 
business without loss; and it is hap- 
piness without care." 

Langland: The Vision of Piers the 

Plowman. 



894 



NOVEMBER 8 



Monday — 

TT is wonderful upon how little 
^ those rare natures, making the 
most of things, will live and thrive. 
There is a great deal more to be got 
out of things than is generally got 
out of them, whether the thing be a 
chapter of the Bible or a yellow 
turnip, and the marvel is that those 
who use the most material should so 
often be those who show the least 
result in strength of character. 

George Macdonald: Sir Gibbie, 



895 



NOVEMBER 9 



Tuesday — 

TT is the enduring of hardness, it 
^ is sharing the life ... it is a 
discontent with the luxury, the 
"needed comfort," as it is called, of 
modern life, that will create amongst 
the educated classes a true enthu- 
siasm for the righting of wrongs that 
cry out continually into the ears of 
the Lord God of Sabbaoth, for which, 
if we do not repent of them, Eng- 
land's Church, because she has not 
dared to speak out the truth, must 
expect her punishment. 

Rev. B» R. Dolling. 



89® 



NOVEMBER 10 



Wednesday — 

OHALL I speak to you of the 
^ blasphemies which the sight of 
the dirt protected by rairaent bought 
at so great a price rouses in the poor 
when, amid cruel sufferings from 
winter frost, they behold their own 
flesh and blood, torpid with cold, 
hunger and thirst on accourit of the 
wicked impiety and thoughtless want 
of compassion expressed by this lux- 
ury? Lend an ear, O woman ar- 
rayed in a train, pay heed, O narrow 
mind. 

Sermon of St, Bernardino of Siena, 



• 897 



NOVEMBER 11 



Thursday — 

Y\ RUMS and battle cries 
^^ Go out in music of the morn- 
ing-star- — 
And soon we shall have thinkers in 
the place 
Of fighters, each found able as 

a man 
To strike electric influence 

through a race, 
Unstayed by city wall and bar- 
ican. 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Casa Guidi 

Windows. 



898 



NOVEMBER 12 



Friday — 

Vl^HEN 5^our body is committed 
^ ^ to the ground, the sight of 
your homes will not permit the mem- 
ory of your ambition to be buried 
with you, but each passer-by, as he 
contemplates the height and size of 
your grand mansions, will say to 
himself or his neighbors, "How many 
orphans were left naked! How 
many widows wronged ! How many 
persons deprived of their wages!" 
Thus the exact contrary of what you 
expected comes to pass: You desired 
to obtain glory during your life, and, 
lo! even after death vou are not de- 
livered from accusers. 

Ancient Homily. 



399 



NOVEMBER 13 



Saturday — 

/COMFORTS very soon reach the 
^^ point where they begin to clog 
instead of hberating human energies. 
A venerable statesman has been 
heard to remark that the things peo- 
ple say they "can't do without" are 
like the pieces of thread with which 
the Lilliputians bound Gulliver. 
Nobody therefore can find out what 
he really needs for his work without 
constantly testing himself in giving 
up things. 

Bishop Gore: Prayer and the Lord's 

Prayer. 



400 



TRINITY XXIV 



ALLELUIA! 

r^IVING thanks unto the Father 
^-^ who hath made us meet to be 

partakers of the mheritance of the 

saints in Hght. 

That we be strengthened unto all 
patience and long-suffering with 
joyfulness. 

We beseech Thee to hear us, 
Good Lord. 

From glorj^ to glory advancing, we 
hymn Thee, the Saviour of our 
souls. 

401 



NOVEMBER 14 



Stmday — 

T^OR days of health, 

'^ For nights of quiet sleep, . . • 

For all earth's contribution to our 
need, 

Good Lord, we thank Thee, 

For our country's shelter. 

For our homes. 

For the joy of faces and the joy of 
hearts that love. 

Good Lord, we thank Thee. 

For the gladness that abides with 
loyalty and the peace of the return. 
Good Lord, we thank Thee. 

For the blessedness of service. 

For our necessities of work. 

For burdens, pains and disappoint- 
ments, means of growth. 

For sorrow, 

For death, 

Father, we thank Thee. 

aS. C. H, C. Manual. 
402 



NOVEMBER 15 



Monday — 

/^NCE where I lay in darkness 

^^ after fight, 

Sore smitten, thrilled a little thread 
of song 

Searching and searching at my muf- 
fled sense 

Until it shook sweet pangs through 
all my blood, 

And I beheld one globed in ghostly 
fire 

Singing, star-strong, her golden can- 
ticle ; 

And her mouth sang, "The hosts of 
Hate roll past, 

A dance of dust motes in the sliding 
sun; 

Love's battle comes on the wide 
wings of storm, 

From east to west one legion! Wilt 
thou strive?'' 

William Vaughn Moody: Jetsam. 
403 



NOVEMBER 16 



Tuesday — 

I^NCE I thought that healing 
^^ came 

From the angels' wings. 
Now the bruised hands of men 

Seem the kindest things. 

Once I thought to pluck and eat 

The fruit of Paradise. 
Now I break with these their bread 

With unsaddened eyes. 

Once I thought to find on earth 
Love, perfect and complete. 

Now I know it carries wounds 
In its hands and feet. 

Anna Hempstead Branch, 



404 



November 17 



Wednesday — 

'T^O an open house in the evening 
^ Home shall all man come. 

To an older house than Eden, 

To a taller town than Rome. 

To the end of the way of the wan- 
dering star. 

To the things that cannot be and 
that are, 

To the place where God was home- 
less 

And all men are at home. 

The Soul of the World. 



405 



NOVEMBER 18 



Thursday — 

rpHE dew, the rain and moonlight 
^ All prove our Father's mind. 
The dew, the rain and moonlight 
Descend to bless mankind. 

Come, let us see that all men 
Have land to catch the rain, 
Have grass to snare the spheres of 

dew. 
And fields spread for the grain. 

Yea, we would give to each poor man 
Ripe wheat and poppies red, — 
A peaceful place at evening 
With the stars just overhead: 

A net to snare the moonlight, 
A sod spread to the svm, 
A place of toil by daytime. 
Of dreams when toil is done. 

Vachel Lindsay. 
406 



NOVEMBER 19 



Friday — 

/^UT of the dusk a shadow, 
^^ Then, a spark; 
Out of the cloud a silence, 

Then, a lark. 
Out of the heart, a rapture. 

Then, a pain; 
Out of the dead, cold ashes. 

Life again. 

John B. Tabb. 



407 



NOVEMBER 20 



Saturday — 

IV/TY understanding was lift up 
^ ^ into heaven, where I saw our 
Lord as a lord in His own house, 
which lord hath called all His dear- 
worthy friends to a solemn feast. 
Then I saw the Lord taking no place 
in His own house, but I saw Him 
royally reign in His house, and all 
fulfilleth it with joy and mirth end- 
lessly to glad and solace His dear- 
worthy friends, full homely and full 
courteously, with marvelous melody 
in endless love, in His own fair 
blessedf ul cheer ; which glorious cheer 
of the Godhead fulfilleth all heaven 
of joy and bliss. 

Revelations pf Divine Love — recorded 

by Jidian Anchoress at Norwich. 

Tt. Serenus de Cressy. 



408 



TRINITY XXV 



SCRIPTURE PROMISES 

nn HIS is His name whereby He 
shall be called: The Lord our 
Righteousness. 

For the hope of His coming Who 
shall execute judgment and jus- 
tice in the earth. 

Good Lord, we thank Thee. 



409 



yi 



NOVEMBER 21 



Sunday— 

rpHUS saith the Lord of hosts: 
Behold, I will save my people 
from the east country, and from the 
west country; and I will bring them, 
and they shall dwell in the midst of 
Jerusalem. • . . For before those 
days there was no hire for man, nor 
any hire for beast; neither was there 
any peace to him that went out or 
came in because of the adversary : 
for I set all men every one against 
his neighbor. But now I will not be 
unto the remnant of this people as 
in the former days, saith the Lord 
of hosts. For there shall be the seed 
of peace. 

Zechariah: VIII. 



410 



NOVEMBER 22 



Monday — 

T F thou take away from the midst 
^ of thee the yoke, the putting forth 
of the finger, and speaking wickedly ; 
and if thou draw out thy soul to 
the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted 
soul ; then shall thy light rise in dark- 
ness, and thine obscurity be as the 
noon-day. . . . And they that shall be 
of thee shall build the old waste 
places : thou shall raise up the founda- 
tions of many generations; and thou 
shalt be called The repairer of the 
breach, The restorer of paths to 
dwell in. 

Isaiah: LVIIL 



411 



NOVEMBER 23 



Tuesday — 

A ND, behold, there came with the 
'^^ clouds of heaven one like unto a 
Son of man, and he came even to the 
Ancient of days, and they brought 
him near before him. And there was 
given him dominion, and glory, and a 
kingdom, that all peoples, nations, 
and languages should serve him: his 
dominion is an everlasting dominion, 
which shall not pass away, and his 
kingdom that which shall not be de- 
stroyed. . . . But the saints of the 
Most High shall receive the kingdom 
and possess the kingdom forever. 

Daniel: VIL 



412 



NOVEMBER 24 



Wednesday — 

IITHEN the Son of man shall 
^ ^ come in his glory, and all the 
angels with him, then shall he sit on 
the throne of his glory: and before 
him shall be gathered all the nations. 
. • • Then shall the King say unto 
them on his right hand, Come, ye 
blessed of my Father, inherit the 
kingdom prepared for you from the 
foundation of the world: for I was 
an hungred, and ye gave me meat : I 
was thirsty, and ye gave me drink : I 
was a stranger, and ye took me in: 
naked, and ye clothed me : I was sick, 
and ye visited me: I was in prison, 
and ye came unto me. . . . Verily I 
say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it 
unto one of these my brethren, ye did 
it unto me. 

St. Matthew: XXV. 



413 



NOVEMBER 25 



Thursday — 

HEREFORE judge nothing 



W 



before the time, until the Lord 
come, who will both bring to the 
light the hidden things of darkness, 
and make manifest the counsels of 
the hearts; and then shall each man 
have his praise from God. 

I. Cor.: IV. 



A ND now, my little children, abide 
^^^^ in him ; that if he shall be mani- 
fested, we may have boldness, and 
not be ashamed before him at his com- 
ing. If ye know that he is righteous, 
ye know that every one also that doeth 
righteousness is begotten of him. 

7. John: II. 



414 



NOVEMBER 26 



Friday — 

A ND I saw a new heaven and a 
new earth : for the first heaven 
and the first earth are passed away; 
. . . And I saw the holy city, new 
Jerusalem, coming down out of hea- 
ven from God made ready as a bride 
adorned for her husband. And I 
heard a great voice out of the throne 
saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God 
is with men, and he shall dwell with 
them, and they shall be his peoples, 
and God himself shall be with them, 
and be their God. And he shall wipe 
away every tear from their eyes. • . . 
And he that sitteth on the throne 
said, Behold, I make all things new. 

Revelation: XXI. 



415 



NOVEMBER 27 



Saturday — 

rpHE city hath no need of the sun, 
^ neither of the moon, to shine up- 
on it : for the glory of God did lighten 
it, and the lamp thereof is the Lamb. 
And the nations shall walk amidst 
the light thereof : and the kings of the 
earth bring their glory mto it. And 
the gates thereof shall in no wise be 
shut by day (for there shall be no 
night there) : . . . And on this side 
of the river and on that v/as the tree 
of life . . . and the leaves of the tree 
were for the healing of the na- 
tions. . . . And his servants shall 
serve him; and they shall see his 
face; and his name shall be on their 
foreheads. . • . He who testifieth 
these things saith, Yea: I come 
quickly. Amen. Come, Lord Jesus. 

Revelation: XXI-XXII. 
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